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Nearly 60 epic art treasures spanning the 16th to 20th centuries, including the Baroque court painter Van Dyck, the Neoclassical master Engel, the Romantic masters Goya and Delacroix, the Viennese Secessionist Klimt, the Surrealist masters Chagall and Magritte, the representative of the Metaphysical School Chéricault, and the Pop artist Andy Warhol. ......, a star-studded collection of masters from the history of Western painting, will tell you a fascinating brief history of the development of Western figure painting in the exhibition hall.

The exhibition features works from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, one of Asia's most diverse and important museums in terms of art collection and display. The Tokyo Fuji Art Museum was founded on the initiative of Japanese author Daisaku Ikeda and houses a collection of over 30,000 works of art from East and West, including paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs, lacquerware, ceramics, swords, armour and emblems, with Western painting from the Renaissance to the modern era at the heart of its collection. This exhibition follows the grand opening of "500 Years of Western Painting - The Collection of the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum" in 2019, and is another major cross-border cultural and artistic exchange between China and Japan.

An exemplary exhibition of Western art history
Portraits of the Masters of Art in Shanghai

The exhibition carefully selects classic portrait subject paintings by over 50 renowned artists, including Antoine van Dyck, Goya, Jacques-Louis David, Engel, Delacroix, Boucher, Klimt, Magritte, Chagall and Andy Warhol, from the 16th century to the 20th century, covering the development of Western art history from the Renaissance, Mannerism or Pretentiousness, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Critical Realism, Impressionism, to Modernism, Romanticism, Critical Realism, Impressionism and all the way to Modernism, this is a textbook exhibition of Western art history. Moreover, many of the artists' works come to China in a stunning manner.

The exhibition is divided into five chapters, Divine Realm, Court, Paradise, Earthly, and Phantasmagoria. In the introduction to the exhibition, it is mentioned that "We hope to lead every viewer from the grand "divine realm" to the magnificent "court" and then back to the mundane "earth". "It is a panoramic record of the statues of the gods, the spectrum of power, and the map of life. It is a glorious humanist fantasy written by masters of the arts, spanning nearly 400 years, living in different eras and from different genres, a piece of music that has been frozen for centuries, and which we are playing here, inviting everyone to meet and listen to it across the centuries."

A selection of works

Abstraction concept René Marguerite (1898-1967 Belgian Surrealist painter) 1966 41.0×33.0cm

Napoleon crossing Mont Saint-Bernard Jacques-Louis David Studio (1748-1825 Founding father of French Neoclassical painting) 1805 73.5×59.0cm

The Dukes of Solomon Braunfels - Portrait of Amalia van Somme (Grandmother of King William III Prince Consort of Orange) Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641 Belgium Antwerp School Flemish Baroque Art Trio Chief Painter at the English Court) 1629 (composition) 114.3×95.9cm 1595

Country Pleasures François Boucher (1703-1770 French painter in the Rococo style, formerly President of the French Academy of Fine Arts, Chief Royal Painter) 1743 92.0×72.5cm

Jupiter and Thetis (Roman Lord God King of the Gods and Greek Goddess of the Sea) Jean-Auguste Dominique Angell (1780-1867 French neoclassical painter, aesthetic theorist and educator) c. 1807-1825 82.0×65.0cm