More inclusive than art museums, more extensive than exhibition halls, both with artworks as the carrier and commercial value, pushing artists' private works into the public vision, in a sense, it is the gallery that builds a bridge between art and society.
In Japan, the Tokyo Art Fair is home to many galleries at once. Last weekend, the three-day Tokyo Art Fair 2022 just ended at the Tokyo Big Sight. As the largest art fair in Japan and one of the most important art fairs in Asia, Tokyo Art Fair was founded in 2005 and is held once a year, but the epidemic in 2020 and the earthquake in 2021 have caused the Tokyo Art Fair to be cancelled or postponed, and finally this year, from March 10 to March 13, the Tokyo Art Fair was successfully launched. Boutique galleries from Japan and around the world gather at art fairs to showcase and sell carefully selected artworks. At the Tokyo Art Fair, you have the opportunity to admire and buy art of various kinds and eras, including ancient art, crafts, Japanese paintings, Western paintings, and modern industrial works, and collectors from all walks of life are eager to try them out.
Whether it is an art fair or a gallery, the two have many similarities in nature, when the art appears in these places, it is no longer a high-ranking ornament, in these places, the art can also be purchased, in the contemporary society to extend the diversity of the art, so that the public and art are connected, so that the art stretches to more fields.
In addition to bringing in the art, art fairs and galleries also give young artists more opportunities, and graduates of well-known Japanese art academies such as Tokyo Gomi will also use the gallery as the starting point of their artistic careers, and the art fair more than a decade ago also sold the works of today's hot artist Takashi Murakami. Here, young artists can be understood and discovered.
In Japan, the Tokyo Gallery is arguably the first modern art gallery in Japan. Takashi Yamamoto, the founder of tokyo galleries, was a top pioneer in the Asian art world in the first half of the century, and he established the Tokyo Gallery in the early 1950s. Tokyo Gallery was established in Ginza as Japan's first gallery of modern and contemporary art. The gallery's initial focus was on modern Japanese figurative paintings, and it was held in the 1956 Torikai Qing'er Exhibition, the 1957 Mantetsu Goro Exhibition, and the Kayama Re-exhibition. In 1958, at the recommendation of art critic Shuzo Takiguchi, an exhibition was held by Yoshishige Saito; in the 1960s, the gallery was the first to introduce Exhibitions to Western artists such as Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Jackson Pollock, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, etc. in Japan, and actively held exhibitions for artists such as Jiro Takamatsu, Kazuo Shiraji, and Taro Okamoto, who led the development of Japanese contemporary art.
The art path of the gallery can be called the starting station of young artists, and becoming the starting station of young art and the navigation mark on the road of art may be found in the famous beauty. Since March this year, Japan has canceled the "sealing order" and opened the country to international students, giving everyone more opportunities to go to Japan and get into the school of their choice. With the significant increase in the number of international students in the field of Japanese fine arts, the difficulty of the examination for international students at Japanese art universities is also increasing. The school has set new heights on the Japanese language ability of international students and the requirements for individuality in drawing techniques.