as I was thinking maybe a battle scene
but also it could be they're trying to
help if there's a fire and they're
trying to put it on yeah yeah oh yeah
I'm sure we could be carrying a bucket
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the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo
mo Matt is Japan's first National Art
Museum located across the Imperial
Palace the museum is home to one of
Japan's largest art collections
comprising a total of over 13,000 items
including countless masterpieces dating
from the early 20th century to the
present day by both Japanese and foreign
artists today we are invited to a let's
talk art event which provides a new way
to enjoy arts and help visitors to get
the most out of their visit so the Mole
Man is a great travel destination
surrounded by the Imperial Palace Kitano
motto Park and Tokyo Station we met a
couple pretty cool people today while we
talked about Japanese art and I never
learned so much today I'm going to show
you what our experience was like and if
you'd like to book a ticket to the let's
talk event when you're in Tokyo I will
link everything down below hey guys
welcome back to my channel your virtual
ticket to Japan I'm with Gretchen and
I'm also with Hannah
the Sartre first time meeting we've
talked before but it's like legit first
time so we decided to come to the museum
today and enjoy some Japanese are gonna
check out some of the art we're gonna
get a to our guys later and everything
so if you're in the Tokyo area that's
great I'm sorry it's so loud there's a
huge building oh my god and we're right
in front of the Imperial Palace which is
even better
so all right Russian are you ready
there's a really cool view on the brand
of the building so if you want to catch
a good glimpse of the Imperial Palace
this is where it's at you can also view
it from inside the building as well
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keep in mind the artworks are changed
three times a year so the works that we
filmed today might not be there when you
guys go
well--that's sumed
how do i zoom out Oh welcome to the
Gretchen cam on the fourth to second
floors the collection exhibition MO
matte collection presents in each
exhibition period about 200 pieces with
replacement of works several times a
year it is the only exhibition in Japan
that allows you to trace the history of
Japanese art from the 20th century
onwards along with overseas works that
had influence on Japanese artists that
was my armpits this morning before I
shave if you have a lot of anxiety
around crowds a museum is a great place
to visit and for second time visitors to
Japan you may notice some places
you've already traveled to depicted in
these paintings I actually climbed this
mountain if you're pressed for time you
can head on over to the highlight
section of the museum where they house
all the masterpieces and splendid works
at 6:30 we began our let's talk art
event and met with our tour guide along
with two other art fanatics once the
program starts you can join in on the
event with foreigners from around the
world I'm a facilitate over today's
program I'm very good
thank you for coming thank you can I
give a comment my name is Kelly and I
live in Japan as a teacher an English
teacher yeah I'm a teacher and I do
YouTube of course so I like to be
creative and everything and I love kids
and I studied education so that's why I
wanted to come here and yeah I like to
travel I've been here for I think nine
years total yeah I've been yeah yeah we
started off the let's talk to her by
introducing ourselves and talking about
a place we love the most
this was to get to know everyone who
would be on the tour with us we are
exploring that works of art through our
conversation a new composition in
neckloop so everybody's idea is very
important and let's share your idea
about the artwork today as you may know
there's no only one right no wrong
answer concerning Earth so every idea is
very welcome and important after that we
headed to the first art piece out of
three that we would see today and the
facilitator would ask us how he felt
about it
what story we thought it told and asked
us about what we could see within the
painting I remember doing this in art
class when I was in elementary school
and junior high school so it was a very
nostalgic experience for me please look
at the painting by yourself without the
reading the capture
are you ready yes god this day what do
you know from what part of the painting
do you think with this is a kind of the
battle um oh that's like fire burning in
the background yeah it's fire looks like
everybody's holding all kind of weapon
oh yeah some yeah then he would have got
them and the weak one like that in
aligning the yeah yeah and it kind of
looks like okay yes I was thinking it
was like a fire and people were running
away at first yeah I looked more closely
and I notice everyone's running towards
the fire so I was thinking maybe a
battle scene but also it could be
they're trying to help if there's a fire
and they're trying to put it on yeah
yeah oh yeah I'm sure only could it be
carrying a bucket run like running away
but then some people trying to get
control of the fire we didn't know about
cause of the fire it could be the
battles just a fire broke out yeah so so
chariot lessons the facilitator finally
told us that the artist intended on the
viewer to see this scene as if you were
away from the fire and viewing it from a
distance
hence the cherry blossoms the fire was
not a battle but a team of villagers
attempting to put out the fire of a
burning building in the end I really got
to know everyone in the group because we
ended up talking about natural disasters
that happen from where we're from it's
kind of like getting closer to the
cities now and it's a problem for the
wildlife like koalas and kangaroos
they're like losing their houses
basically yeah
yeah it's like this right now the next
art piece was a statue of a woman
kneeling and looking up into the
distance what do you think the artist
had admission here my first impression
is it looks kind of like a sensual kind
of here it's not wearing a muumuu yeah
her body language is very open like oh
yes so now why don't you choose the
position you think the best position to
look at this Starcher oh yeah you're
right that's it
yeah
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but I think 19 aspire form outward like
there is sometimes I don't know like she
it's like a hard difficult thing but it
allows it something positive link
there's something that that's coming
that's going to happen but it's
difficult
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the little exercises we did connected us
to the art pieces and made us all have
fun laugh and share ideas at the same
time show cases our masterpiece is an
essence of the museum the last piece of
art looked like it wasn't from Japan but
little did we know it was it was the
most difficult to predict and interpret
Lily jumped out of he's like the warm
colors like white light on his face and
books of his hair the red on his nose
and his lips and his cheeks are kind of
sad or like he's thinking really hard
our facilitator told us that this was
painted by the owner of a bakery where
he met a man from Russia in the late
1800s the warm tones bring out his
chiseled features and suggest a warm
environment at the end of the let's talk
to her we talked about what we loved
about the experience and what we learned
first of all you learn other
perspectives like oh I didn't see that
like oh she could be in pain I don't
know I didn't think of that and then
also you taught us a lot of things about
the firefighters one I didn't know any
of that so I learned a lot that was
really interesting about certain things
that you guys said or you guys said yeah
I like learning what other people's
people were imagining thinking so even
though you ordinary thinking is very new
to others yeah and especially because
this event is very much like other
people from other countries like heaven
Australia yeah talking about Australia
and comparing it to paintings and things
like that so like I thought that was
really interesting if you guys would
like to know more about this fun event
while you're travelling in Tokyo check
out the links below
visitors may take photos of some of the
artwork but video is not allowed thank
you guys for watching this inside look
at the National Museum of Modern Art
Tokyo I decided to check this out in
hopes that it would allow travelers like
you to meet people from other countries
and learn something new about Japan
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