NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Looking East: Western Artists and the Allure of Japan, on view in the Frist Center for the Visual Arts' Ingram Gallery from January 31 through May 11, 2014, celebrates the cultural and aesthetic influences of Japanese art and culture on the Western imagination in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Premiering at the Frist Center, this traveling exhibition reveals aspects of the fruitful exchange by presenting works and objects by influential Japanese artists alongside those of Western luminaries such as Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, John La Farge, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Alfred Stieglitz, Vincent van Gogh, Frank Lloyd Wright among many others.
Visitors to the Frist Center already fond of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces such as Postman Joseph Roulin (1888)by Van Gogh and Under the Horse-Chestnut Tree (1895) by Cassatt may be surprised by their direct connections to Japan highlighted in this exhibition. "There have only been a few exhibitions on this subject and it is exciting for the Frist Center to be the first venue for this one," says Frist Center Curator Trinita Kennedy. "Because of the presence of Japanese companies, Nashville is the perfect place to celebrate this important moment of artistic exchange between East and West." The exhibition, which will coincide with the city's Cherry Blossom Festival, will later be seen throughout Japan and then at the Musee National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec and San Francisco's Asian Art Museum.Videos