Visage Painting and the Human Face in 20th Century Art

Visage Painting and the Human Face in 20th Century Art was a major international overview of painting and the face held in 2000 at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo and at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, curated by National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

It included works by:

Magdalena Abakanowicz Ai-mitsu Shigeru Aoki Jean Arp Antonin Artaud Francis Bacon Georg Baselitz Francesco Clemente Chuck Close Jean Dubuffet Max Ernst Fang Lijun Lucio Fontana Tsuguharu Foujita Alberto Giacometti

Toshiyuki Hasegawa Tatsuo Ikeda Leiko Ikemura Alexei von Jawlenski Hitoshi Karasawa On Kawara Myoung Sook Kim Tamiji Kitagawa Paul Klee Oskar Kokoschka Willem de Kooning Yasuo Kuniyoshi Shigeru Kuriyama Henri Matisse Shunsuke Matsumoto

Henri Michaux Tomio Miki Joan Miró Amedeo Modigliani Kaita Murayama Tsune Nakamura Pablo Picasso Jackson Pollock Chatchai Puipia Gerhard Richter Aso Saburo Shoji Sekine Georgy Shishkin Yan Pei Ming Tetsugoro Yoruzu Zhang Xiaogang

Subjects

This exhibition presented works by 45 artists from the dawn of the 20th century to the present.

References

• A catalogue was published by the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo in 2000

External links

• ArtFacts.net