Ohara Museum of Art

The Ohara Museum of Art in Kurashiki is the oldest museum of western craftsmanship in Japan and opened in 1930. The private exhibition hall was crafted by neighborhood material business visionary Ohara Magosaburo to honor his companion, painter Kojima Torajiro 1881-1929, who had kicked the bucket the earlier year. Ohara had supported Kojima on craftsmanship purchasing excursions to Europe and it is the works of art Kojima obtained for Ohara that structure the center of the gathering.

The museum originally displayed basically French painting and model from the nineteenth and mid twentieth century yet has extended to incorporate Dutch and Flemish painting of the seventeenth century and craftsmanship from the Italian Renaissance. The work of famous artists of the twentieth century is currently likewise present in the magnificent gathering alongside workmanship from the Mingei Movement Japanese Folk Art Movement, Islamic craftsmanship, antiquated oriental workmanship, traditional workmanship from Greece and Rome, oriental tiles and Chinese artworks.

Paul Cezanne, Marc Chagall, Edgar Degas, El Greco, Paul Gauguin, Paul Klee, Jeff Koons, Bernard Leach, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollack, Mark Rothko and Andy Walhol are only a portion of the craftsmen whose work is is on display.