Norton Simon Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
411 West Colorado Blvd
626-449-6840
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The Sumida River Embankment in the Eastern Capital, 1858, from The Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, Utagawa Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858, Norton Simon Museum
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June 4, 2010 – Jan 17, 2011
Mondays (noon–6pm)
Wednesdays–Thursdays (noon–6pm)
Fridays (noon–9pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (noon–6pm)
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Directions: Located on the corner of Orange Grove and Colorado at the intersection of the 210 and 134 freeways
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$8
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“Think of iconic Japanese print-maker Hiroshige as a kind of Andy Warhol of his day, crossed with a staff photographer for the Edo (aka ancient Tokyo) Conservation Society. His penchant for serializing high points of the architecture, landscapes, and other picturesque urbanities earned him great acclaim and popular appeal during his lifetime, and an enduring place in the canon of Japanese art. Most Westerners know him from that infinitely-reproduced image of Mt. Fuji in the background with a swirling dark blue and crisp white tsunami in the foreground, but a visit to this charming and expansive show reveals the much larger extent to which this single artist's vision has come to shape the world's view of Japanese culture, even to the present day.”
Shana Nys Dambrot, Flavorpill
Note:
The Norton Simon presents Taiko Drumming on July 16 (7pm).
The Norton Simon Museum presents Hiroshige: Visions of Japan, an exhibition of nearly 200 prints by Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858), one of the most celebrated and prolific artists of his time. Drawn from the Museum's extensive collection of Japanese woodblock-prints, the exhibition features works from Hiroshige's seminal series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo and Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, among others. All together, the images offer visitors a glimpse into everyday life in 19th-century Japan, with its festivals, rituals, and sublime natural beauty.
