
Vision of a Moment: Japanese Prints from 1950 to 1960
16 October 2021 to 18 September 2022
Free
About Vision of a Moment: Japanese Prints from 1950 to 1960
In 1961 the Japanese government presented the Ashmolean Museum with a set of forty works by Japan’s leading contemporary print artists.
The gift was part of a cultural exchange between the UK and Japan and also celebrated the establishment of a new Eastern Art Department in the museum.
This exhibition commemorates the 60th anniversary of this extraordinary gift and of the founding of the Eastern Art Department.
It includes a range of abstract and figurative works, including woodblock prints, mezzotints and lithographs – all examples of sōsaku hanga ‘Creative Prints’, made by artists who embraced modernist ideals of artistic self-expression.
While Creative Print artists had begun transforming Japanese printmaking in the first decades of the twentieth century, it was in the 1950s that they first achieved widespread international acclaim.
‘Vision of a Moment’ presents a snapshot of the art of Japanese printmaking at this golden moment in its history.
Tickets
Details
- Start:
- 16 October 2021
- End:
- 18 September
- Cost:
- Free
- Event Category:
- Exhibitions & Displays
- Event Tags:
- What’s on at the Ashmolean Museum
Venue
- Ashmolean Museum
- 35 Beaumont Street
Oxford, OX1 2PH United Kingdom + Google Map - Phone:
- 01865 278000
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