Yoshimi Miyamoto Archives

Sunday August 16th, 2015

About Kröller Müller Museum

I visited a great place last week.

The Kröller Müller Museum is in the De Hoge Veluwe National Park.

Visitors are free to walk around or borrow one of the white bicycles (free of charge),
I rode on the bicycle, and walked in this beautiful garden with nice views!

In the Museum they have a really nice collection:
Vincent Van Gogh, Piet Mondriaan, Pablo Picasso etc.

The museum has one of Europe’s largest sculpture gardens.
The outdoor gallery covers 25 hectares, in which modern sculptures blend into the natural background.
I liked this area! I went to the around gardens.

I was thinking about this museum, how every generation can enjoy this in a different way.
Even if they aren’t interest in the art, they can enjoy the nature and park all day long.

I saw and looked at good feeling people in this place, I felt the same.

More info about Kröller Müller Museum

Sunday August 9th, 2015

Rembrandt and Japanese Paper

I went the Rembrandt house last week with Hannie van den Bergh (coordinator of Deshima AIR).
Rembrandt house was the exhibition Rembrandt and Japanese Paper Exhibition.

It was the first time,I saw an old style Amsterdam house from the inside.
They restaurated Rembrandt’s living and working place, where he lived for twenty years.
It looks interesting.
I could see old style paint.

Next thing, I saw Japanese paper exhibition.
Rembrandt made use of preferably a Japanese paper.
I was comparing Japanese paper and European paper print.
On the Japanese paper the etches were more soft than European paper.

I like Japanese paper material.
I could understand Rembrandt likes Japanese paper!!

Rembrandthuis

Sunday August 2nd, 2015

Leiden

I visited in the Leiden yesterday.

I could see the Rembrandt birthplace.
I was thinking about his attitude to life.

After that I went to the Sieboldhuis.
Siebold is a very important man to me.

I was impressed about his love for Japan.
This place has a nice collection.

When I was visiting the place, many Dutch People where there as well .
I was thinking joyful !!

Monday July 27th, 2015

MESDAG

I visited Den Haag with Lies Verdenius yesterday.

I went to the “PANORAMA MESDAG”
I watched wonderful painting.

Mesdag painted seascape,120 metres in circumference and 14 metres high.
I will never forget this place so great!

than I visited real sea in the Den Haag.
nice place!

Lies Verdenius:

At July 24 we visited The Hague again. I had to pick up my drawing at the Pulchri Studio. A new exhibition was installed, so we could look at this too.

Then we did go to the Panorama Mesdag by bike and also me, I saw for the first time this impressive panorama of Scheveningen at 1880. It is really an experience! As if you are really at the top of a dune, looking around.

We went by car to the real beach at Scheveningen harbour and went into the sand to the sea. Yoshimi is a dreamer: she was standing in the sea for a long time, looking at her feet surrounded by the waves and she made lot of photographs of that.

I wanted to show her the real dunes as well, so we went on to Kijkduin and made a small trip by bike in the dunes.

Real tired we went at last to my aunt again for tea and stories.

We looked at an old book with photographs of her and my dad and uncle at the age of 6 years old, so that was 1921! Yoshimi liked them very much.

My aunt said to me that she enjoyed Yoshimi’s beautiful face so much.

She hopes that we are coming back soon to visit her.

Monday July 27th, 2015

The Dutch Light

Nice to meet you.

This is Yoshimi Miyamoto.I’m a painter from Japan.
I’ll stay here three month.

I’d like to study of the Dutch light because I take part in project.
Please to meet you.

Lies Verdenius:

When I was told about the interest of Yoshimi Miyamoto in the Dutch Light, I thought about the exhibition in The Hague in the Gemeentemuseum “Holland op z’n mooist”

(Holland at her most beautiful side). An exhibition of “De Haagse School” , end of the nineteenths century – Mesdag, Weissenbruch, Mauve, Israëls, Gabriël, Roelofs.

So at July 15 we went together to see that exhibition and spend some hours in the museum. Yoshimi was very interested and took a lot of photographs.

In the museum shop she bought a book for children of the exhibition: the old paintings with new elements like cars and playing children. Not as heavy as the official catalogue and much less expensive!

The artist members of the Pulchri Studio were asked to make works in the mind of Mesdag and we visited that exhibition too. I even bought a small beautiful charcoal drawing of the beach at Scheveningen!

Mesdag was the founder of the Pulchri Studio at designed the new exhibitions rooms behind the old building at the Lange Voorhout with beautiful daylight.

At the end of the day we visited my aunt Wimke of 99 years old, who lives in The Hague nearby Kijkduin. Her whole life she painted in watercolour as an amateur in the dunes behind her house. Yoshimi liked, just like me, the house full of beautiful antique furniture and ceramics and we drank tea out of Japanese cups, a present from her nephew, who visited Japan several times for his work.