This is a continuation of my photo walk in Urabandai, Aizu.
With a typhoon approaching the Tohoku region, it was a difficult day for me to decide whether to end my vacation early and return to Tokyo or to continue my stay in Urabandai, where the weather would be cooler even if it was stormy.
As I continued to ponder, I decided to visit this place under the unsettled skies (you can see the rain in the photo).
The Morohashi Museum of Modern Art is known for its art exhibits featuring Western art works (especially known for its Dali collection) collected by the founder of Xebio, a leading sports and apparel retailer, Morohashi Teizo. It is an art museum in the middle of the art scene, a far cry from the “art-ish facilities” that are often found in tourist areas.
When the weather is like this and getting worse, there are only a limited number of options for places to go. At such times, the Morohashi Museum’s 25th anniversary “Salvatore Dali” exhibition is the perfect in-room intellectual entertainment for you. You can’t afford not to go see it.
I guessed that many people were thinking the same way, and when I arrived at the museum after 10:00 a.m., there was quite a long pue in front of the exhibition room. This may have been due to the fact that the exhibition was introduced on NHK’s “Sunday Museum of Art” a while ago.
Anyway, we enjoyed the works of Dali, Chirico, Magritte, Miró, and other surrealists. Naturally, photography of the exhibition rooms and works themselves is not allowed, but there are a few areas where photography is permitted.
Here is the only work that we were allowed to take pictures of: “The Tournament of Tetuan.
At 3 meters long and 4 meters wide, this is a very large and very monstrous work (or rather, Dali is all about monstrous works). However, after returning to Tokyo, I came across the following information (i.e., how it was painted) and regretted that I could have enjoyed it even more if I had known such things.
Apart from the artworks on display, the museum itself is also quite a magnificent structure. The view of the pond from the attached café is also quite nice.
That water lily, perhaps due to this year’s hot weather, was in excellent health. The photo was taken from a similar position to the top photo, with the main composition of the water lilies.
There are a large number of flowers around the blooming flowers, whether they are buds that will bloom or flowers that have closed after blooming, I don’t know.
I took this picture on my way home, but in fact, when I arrived in the morning, there were not only white flowers but also many red flowers open. I missed the chance to take a picture of them, but anyway, it was the first time for me to see such a vigorous flower-plants.
Anyway, should I go back to Tokyo or stay in here?
