Art painter in art painter? Peter Doig Exhibition
National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo of Peter Doig Exhibition whose closure period was put off due to coronavirus has been decided toresume its operation until October 11,2020.
Peter Doig, an artist painter who was born in Edinburgh,Scotland in 1959 mainly produced oil paintings.
Peter Doig emerged in the 1980s when conceptual art was prevailing. In the meantime, he belongs to the field called "New Expressionism" which is aimed to discover "contents" or "meanings" in pictures.

He has had a good reputation for years on the ground that he was nominated for the "Turner Prize" in U.K. with the expression of taking on the technique of Edvard Munch and Paul Gauguin. I saw the work since the exhibition was for the first time in Japan.

National Museum of Modern Art has treated some artworks fo gender artists in the contents of a rotating exhibit and put on display those of the artists a lot wich would intrique us  in various views.

This time I visited the museum to smooth over the simple questions as to why the exhibition of Peter Doig is regarded as "Art ppainter in art painter" and why he is so low-profile in Japan.

By the way, there are a few words of caution in artworks of Peter Doig. His art works are mostly created by conjuring an image a film scene in the past or an image of the lanscape in his mind of Canada and the Republic of Torinidad and Tobago(where he still lives in). Peter Doig created ＜Canoe lake＞by getting an idea from a film scene of "Friday the 13th" and ＜Lapeyrouse Wall＞from "Tokyo story" both of which are nostalgic artworks flavored with his distinctive manner.

He hs many ways in expression where his technique is  similar to the past art painter such as Gauguin, it maybe sure that his life itself is giving a subtle hue to his artworks. In spite of advancing globalization, there atill remains differences in hw to sense or view the art between Japan nad Western countries, so we have a lot of things that we cannot share in appreciating the evaluation of art, don't we? It is, however, true that one of his subjects originate from one scene in Japan as his source of image, he includes artwords created through the image from the cinema "Tokyo story" or the poster of Niseko ski resort in Hokkaido. And young authenticators may probably habe empathy in that Doig's mental scenery now on display is already expressed in their minds as sentimental sepia memory.

Canoe lake