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Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (075-771-4107)

This public art museum was established as The Japan's second largest museum in 1933. It houses some 2C100 paintings and craft works from the Meiji PeriodC mainly by artists associated with Kyoto. Exhibitions of its permanent collection are held four times a year.

Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection ‡U:
hChromatic Symphony:Mixing and Arranging Colorsh

The Exhibition will trace the ideas and meaning of colors by means of the way in which the works of artists from many fieldsC selected from the Museumfs collectionC are being displayed together. Features of Kyoto reflected in the colors of the works will be found in the materialsC techniques and historical and cultural backgrounds related to the production of the colors. The exhibits include works by Hisako KajiwaraC Noboru KitawakiC Taizo Yoshinaka and Seika Yamaga.
DATE:
Jun.28 (Sat.) ` Aug.31 (Sun.)
FEES:
400 (Adults. Univ. & hi. sch. stus.) / 200 (Stus. of Jr. hi. sch. level and below)

One Hundred Years of Painting in Paris:
hThe City of RenoirCCezanneC and UtrilloC 1830-1930h

The exhibitionC whose main themes are the city of Paris and the people living thereC features works from the collections of museums in Paris. Paris was transformed into a modern city by the building of new bridges across the River SeineC by the creation of parks and fountains and by the construction of the Eiffel TowerC which was completed for the Exposition Universelle in 1889.
The exhibition shows how new styles of urban landscape and pictures of people in Paris were painted by artists who were either born in or moved to Paris. Some 120 works by RenoirC Utrillo and RodinC including Cezannefs gTemptation of St. Anthonyh will be on display in Japan for the first time.
DATE:
Sep.13 (Sat.) ` Nov.3 (Mon./Hol.)
FEES:
1C300 (Adults) / 900 (Univ. & hi. sch. stus.) / 500 (Stus. of Jr. hi. sch. level and below)

The 93rd Inten: Exhibition of the Japan Art Institute

DATE:
Sep.19 (Fri.) ` Oct.5 (Sun.)
FEES:
900 (Adults) / 700 (Univ. & hi. sch. stus.) / Free of charge (Stus. of Jr. hi. sch. level and below)
HOUR:
9:00`17:00 (Enter by 16:30)
CLOSED:
Mondays (Open on public Hol.)
ACCESS:
Near Kyoto Kaikan Bijutsukan Mae of the Kyoto City Bus from JR/Kintetsu Kyoto Stn.C or 10-min. walk from Higashiyama Stn. on the Subway Tozai Line.