Color Fields
from the Collection of Audrey and David Mirvish
March 19 － September 4, 2022
- Hours：
- 9:30－17:00 (last admission 16:30)
- Closed：
- Mondays (except Mar. 21 and July 18), Mar. 22 - July 19
- Organizer：
- DIC Corporation
- Special Cooperation：
- David Mirvish Gallery
- In Association with：
- Embassy of Canada to Japan, Chiba Prefecture, The Board of Education of Chiba Prefecture, Sakura City, The Board of Education of Sakura City
Morris Louis, Untitled (Italian Veil), 1960
Collection of Audrey and David Mirvish
Museum Admission
- Adults ¥1,500
- College / 65 and over ¥1,300
- Elem / JH / HS ¥600
Groups of 20 or more：
Persons with a disability pass：
- Adults ¥1,200
- College / 65 and over ¥1,000
- Elem / JH / HS ¥400
*Admission also includes entrance to the permanent collection galleries.
- For students and seniors over 65, discounts require identification such as a Student ID, passport or driver's license.
- For persons with a disability pass=the same discounted price applies for one accompanying care-giver for each disability pass holder
Outline
Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting which developed mainly in the US from the latter half of the 1950s to the 1960s. By creating fields of color across the canvas, extensive and profuse pictures emerged.
Featuring works from the Mirvish Collection, which is internationally renowned for its Color Field paintings, this is the first exhibition to be held in Japan with focus on nine artists involved in Color Field and introducing distinguished works dating from the 1960s onwards. These artists each explored the relationship between color and painting in their own way, and in that process, many of them attained painting techniques of their own. Using shaped canvases with irregular forms, staining the canvas with paint, spraying color on with a spray gun, etc.—these unfamiliar techniques opened up new horizons in painting.
The large canvases and the diverse ideas on color unfolded there continue to stimulate the viewer’s sensibility and imagination to the present day. As you walk through the gallery filled with the artists’ individual approaches toward colors embodied in these works, you will encounter the infinite potential of color and thus painting.
Artists Represented
Jack Bush, Anthony Caro, Friedel Dzubas, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, Frank Stella