The Cubist Revolution
- An Exhibition from the Collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris
2024/3/20-2024/7/7
Venue [ Main Building(North Wing)1F | Main Building(South Wing)1F ]
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Invented by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque during the early twentieth century, Cubism revolutionized Western art like never before in history. The name derives from a 1908 landscape painting by Braque that was critiqued as a “cube.” The movement was an attempt at breaking away from three-dimensional representations of space using the traditional Western painting techniques of perspective and shading and at creating compositions from forms geometrically transformed into planes. Cubism freed painting from its positioning since the Renaissance, in which it was regarded as an imitation of the real world. In addition, by fundamentally changing the way painting and sculpture should be, Cubism paved the way for abstract art, Dada, and Surrealism. Boldly challenging conventional aesthetics and opening up new possibilities for visual expression, Cubism had a powerful impact on the young artists who flocked to Paris. It spread around the world at lightning speed, into fields as varied as decoration and design, architecture, and Performing arts, and had a decisive influence on subsequent diverse developments in art.
The Centre Pompidou in Paris boasts one of the world’s finest collections of modern and contemporary art. This exhibition brings numerous priceless works in that collection that define the history of Cubism to Japan. Among these, over fifty will be shown in Japan for the first time. Cubism was the true starting point of twentieth-century art and opened up new horizons. This exhibition presents its rich developments and dynamism through about 140 works consisting mainly of paintings by about forty major artists, as well as sculptures, drawings, prints, film, and documents. It is the first full-scale Japanese exhibition to tackle Cubism head-on in about fifty years.
Information
- Period
- March 20 (Wed. national holiday) – July 7 (Sun.), 2024
- Time
- 10:00-18:00 (Last Admission: 17:30)
- Venue
- Main Building(North Wing)1F | Main Building(South Wing)1F
- Closed on
- Mondays (except April 29 and May 6)
- Admission
- Adult ¥2,100 (Advance/Group ¥1,900)
High school and University student ¥1,400 (Advance/Group ¥1,200)
Elementary and Junior high school student ¥900 (Advance/Group ¥700)
*Tax included
*Free admission for preschool children
*Free admission for persons with disability certificate and one attendant (please bring your student ID, disability certificate, or other proof of identification)
*Other special tickets are available
*Free admission for Elementary/Junior high/High school students on April 13, 14, 20, and 21
Reservations are not required to visit this exhibition.
Advanced tickets will be on sale starting at 10:00 am on January 19 (Fri.), 2024.
Tickets are on sale at Museum official tickets sale and other major sites.
- Organized by Centre Pompidou, Nikkei Inc., Television Osaka, Inc., The Kyoto Shimbun, City of Kyoto
- Supported by Ambassade de France/Institut français du Japon
- Sponsored by OBAYASHI CORPORATION, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP), NIPPON EXPRESS Co.,Ltd., BOUCHERON JAPAN
- In Cooperation with SAPPORO BREWERIES LTD., Japan Airlines Co., Ltd., Japanese Friends of the Centre Pompidou