東京都美術館、新印象派展。

2月18日。高校時代の親友と東京都美術館「新印象派展」を見に行きました。上野公園には寒桜が咲いていました。一流の芸術鑑賞は心の癒しですね。
新印象派展では、印象派のモネの作品から始まり、スーラ、シニャックによる新印象派初期の作品、その後フランスやベルギーで次々と生み出された多様な新印象派の作品、さらにマティス、ドランの色彩溢れる作品を紹介しています。スーラの描いた静かで小さな点が、マティスのダイナミックで強い色彩の表現へ至るまでの変化の軌跡を、世界各国から集結する約100点で紹介しています。

From official page of Tokyo metropolitan museum of art
"Neo-Impressionism exhibition "  at Tokyo metropolitan of art
Neo-Impressionism—one of the innovative art movements that propelled painting into the 20th century—is revisited by this exhibition through a chronological exploration of the first nearly twenty years that followed its emergence in 1886 at the Eighth Impressionist Exhibition. Where the Impressionists had ushered in a new style of painting to capture the natural world as it appeared to their eyes, vividly evoking shifting images such as rippling water and the play of sunlight, the Neo-Impressionists branched out by bringing in the latest knowledge in optics and color theory. At the same time, they shifted the emphasis away from faithfully re-creating the world to tapping into the power of expression of the colors themselves, and in so doing they set the stage for the advent of Fauvism at the dawn of the 20th century.
　 The journey taken by this exhibition begins with Impressionist paintings by Monet, and then progresses to the early Neo-Impressionism of artists such as Seurat and Signac, the diverse Impressionist works that subsequently streamed forth in France and Belgium, and finally the brilliant hues put to canvas by Matisse and Derain. All together, some 100 works are brought together from across the globe to trace the fascinating transition from Seurat’s diminutive, subdued dots of paint to the bold, dynamic colors of Matisse.