Kinbi

2015年8月22日 (土)

Some of you might know that I enjoy going to the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Kinbi) whenever I have free time.  Their current exhibition (which ends tomorrow) is a collection of French impressionist paintings, mostly from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Kinbi is a small museum, but they have a lot of interesting exhibitions, and I am rarely disappointed by my experience there.  I enjoyed this exhibition, too, but I did feel that there were very few 19th century French impressionist paintings mixed in with a variety of other styles of paintings.  I was hoping to see more Renoir, Cezanne, and of course, Monet.

I am always impressed by the huge number of people who come to the museum near the end of an exhibition.  I went this Wednesday morning, thinking that there would not be very many guests at the museum at that time.  I was wrong!  There was a line of people waiting to buy tickets, and the whole exhibition was crowded with people viewing the paintings.  It was so noisy and crowded that I put in earphones and listened to some Debussy piano music.  (This was appropriate because Debussy was, in my opinion, an impressionist composer.)

I had a good experience, but I decided that in the future, I shouldn’t go to an exhibition during its last week.

I once had an exhibition almost completely to myself: I went to see the Taka Kikukawa exhibition at about 4:15pm on a Friday afternoon, and there were no other guests.  I enjoyed that experience much more.