ART MUSEUMS IN TOKYO: 東京の美術館案内

The ultimate guide to the art museums in Tokyo98 art museums and one public art are introduced in English and Japanese."There are various benefits to visiting art museums and viewing artworks with your own eyes. Some things can only be felt from having a real object in front of you. The most obvious matter is the feeling of size. The size strongly influences an impression of an artwork, but even the most detailed images cannot express the sense of size. It is also difficult to grasp the texture of artwork from an image. By looking at an artwork from a close distance, you can see swellings of paints and traces of brushes, and you can feel the power and momentum at the time of production. No matter how much the colour reproducibility of printed matter technology is improved, it would be impossible to reproduce the experience of viewing the actual colours directly."The author, Edward E. Taniguchi, is an art researcher based in Yokohama, Japan. In addition to his BA in economics from Keio University, he studied aesthetics, art theory, art history, Japanese traditional culture and design thinking at Kyoto University of the Arts, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree. He completed his MBA at the University of Edinburgh. Read more