Reiko Meguro Laboratory

This is the first exhibition in the "Circle" room of the Gates Museum, and the first solo exhibition for Reiko Meguro at the Virtual Museum. From an early age, the school science room has been her favorite place. Even after losing "life", I was fascinated by the many specimens of skeletons and insects that continue to exist beautifully as objects. Eventually becoming a painter, the inhabitants of this laboratory became a consistent theme for her lifelong painting. They are wearing a slight eerieness and humor that surpasses it as if they were given "raw" again in the canvas. She received many awards for her strong personality and perfection and was selected as a member of Dokuritsu Fine Arts Society Associate, which is said to have a long way to go before becoming a member. Here, we will trace the trajectory of Reiko Meguro from 2007 to 2021.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Exhibition– The Artist Who Painted Happiness –

The French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) has been called "the only painter who never painted a sad picture", and his style is characterized by a soft touch and rich colors with plenty of natural light. In the more than 50 years of his career, he painted a wide range of subjects, including portraits, families, landscapes, flowers, still lifes, and nudes, but the consistent theme in all of his works was to depict a happy world filled with the joy of living.
This exhibition features 50 works from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Oslo Museum of Art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. As a unique virtual experiment, the exhibition features works that have been enlarged to twice the actual size of their long and short sides (four times the area). We hope you will enjoy Renoir's vividly drawn works.

Paul Cézanne Exhibition- The Road from Romanticism to Cubism -

1sr July 2021 - 30th November 2021

Paul Cézanne, a French painter who was active in the art world of the 19th and 20th centuries, was also called the "father of modern painting" and had a great influence on the avant-garde art of the 20th century. Inspired by Delacroix and Courbet, who represents romanticism, Cezanne at a younger age worked together as a member of the Impressionists such as Picasso, Renoir, and Monet, and then painted paintings that incorporated multiple perspectives on one screen. It became the basis of the artistic concept in Cubism, which was later established by Picasso and Black. In this exhibition, we will consider the life of Cezanne in the following three categories.
As an attempt unique to virtual, his work is exhibited at a ratio of doubling the actual size of the long side and the short side (the area is quadrupled). Follow the lifetime of Cezanne through these works of art.

• ・ROOM 1 Early works (the 1860s)
• ・ROOM 2 Impression / Constructivist era works (1872-1887)
• ・ROOM 3 Works of the Comprehensive Era (1888-1906)