Machiora Western Painting Association 138th Exhibition Shibuya Museum of Art will be held from Tuesday, September 4, 2024

Exhibition information from Galleria Reino Fukuyama store.
The Machiora Western Painting Association, which has been in operation since 1951, will be holding its 138th exhibition at the Shibuya Museum of Art from Tuesday, September 4th.

Please come and see the exhibition of the Machiora Western Painting Association, which has a long history.

Machiora Western Painting Association 138th Exhibition

【period】
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 - Sunday, October 13, 2024

【time】
9:30-17:00 (entry until 16:30)
* Final day open until 15:00 (entry until 14:30)

[Closed days]
Mondays and Tuesdays (including public holidays)

【place】
Shibuya Museum of Art 8-27 Honmachi, Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture



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What is Machiora Western Painting Association?

After the war, several young women who had received painting instruction from painter Kenichiro Sasada at the Fukuyama Bunka Fashion School called on women in the Bingo region to join, and the Women's Western Painting Association was founded with 17 members in 1951. Women had gained the right to vote, and an era of hope for women was finally beginning.

Fukuyama was also beginning to recover from the burnt ruins at that time.
In a world where it was difficult to obtain paints and canvases to paint oil paintings, it was rare for a woman to paint oil paintings, so she painted quietly, careful not to be seen by others.
For the first exhibition, members put up hand-painted posters all over the city and the event was held on a grand scale in the event hall on the second floor of the shack-like Tenmaya building.
An exhibition featuring only women was quite unusual and attracted the interest of many people.

*The first exhibition was held from January 8th to January 13th, 1952 at the Tenmaya Exhibition Hall, a two-story post-war barracks, and featured 34 works by 17 artists, including 38 works by renowned Western-style painters Kazusaku Kobayashi, Ryohei Ogata, Koichi Katayama, and Kenichiro Sasada.

*The name of the Machiola Western Painting Society: The Japanese aristolochia flower is called the Machiola flower in Italian.
The flower language of this lovely and beautiful flower is
-Beauty is eternal-
It was an expression that suited a group of female Western filmmakers well.
Yoshiko Hiroyasu