It is true that Japan is a close neighbor. The plane took off from Beijing and landed in Osaka before it got hot.

Although it is a close neighbor, it took a long time to come, mainly because I was vaguely aware that Japan and China had a very unpleasant past after all, and they have not admitted their mistakes. But every time I listen to a friend who has been to Japan, I get rave reviews. This time, my daughter didn't have many opportunities to travel with us, and she wanted to go to Japan, which finally made my two-week trip to Japan.

I didn't worry about the two-week trip at all. My wife and daughter planned it all. From the plane ticket to the hotel, to where to see everything every day, they make up their minds. I am a dedicated experience. The experience of these two weeks greatly exceeded my expectations, leaving a deep impression, and even a little surprised.

However, what surprised me most in Japan was not the toilet seat and rice cooker, but its museum culture, which was most profound when I saw the exhibition in Tokyo.

I have been to many exhibition halls and art galleries all over the world, and I have also visited special exhibitions, but I have never seen these special exhibitions like this one in Tokyo. I am very surprised and even amazed by their meticulous planning and ingenious layout!

During our days in Tokyo, we saw the special exhibition "Northern Zhai and Western Painting" at the Western Art Museum. I saw the special exhibition "Van Gogh and Japan" in Tokyo Art Museum. I saw the exhibition of architectural works "Tadao Ando: Challenge" in the New National Art Museum, and every one of them amazed me.

Let's start with the Northern Zhai and the Western Art Exhibition. Beizhai is a very famous painter in Japan. He has a painting method of waves, which is his original creation and his signature, and is widely known in Japan. He also drew some sketches of Japanese landscape figures. In Japan, I feel that he should be equivalent to Qi Baishi's well-known position in China.

If it is an exhibition of Qi Baishi's paintings, everyone can think of what it looks like. Put out the paintings of the old man Baishi, and add some words to explain the creative background. That's enough.

But this exhibition in Beizhai is completely different. His paintings are the main line, and some elements are extracted from the paintings, and the paintings of western artists are exhibited together with the works of Beizhai. In order to make it easy for the audience to identify, Beizhai's paintings are represented by blue signs, and the paintings of western painters are represented by white signs, which are clear at a glance.

The comparison and selection of eastern and western paintings is also quite interesting. For example, here may be a white painting of Beizhai. These Japanese men are wearing a crotch cloth background and their hands are inserted at their waist. And the clothes next to it are degas's masterpiece. A few ballerinas, dressed in dance skirts, with their skirts spread out and their bodies slightly tilted, saw the back of their backs, with their hands behind their waists, which looked similar to the Japanese men wearing crotch cloth. Seeing this, the visitors can't stop smiling, and they will secretly admire the planner's high level and wide knowledge!

In this way, looking at Tsuihiji, the contrast between Japanese culture and western culture is presented interestingly to the visitors.

This exhibition seems to make Beizhai shoulder the heavy responsibility of comparing eastern and western art with eastern painting schools. Western paintings for comparison are from art galleries or private goods all over the world, while western authors are very famous, including Monet, Van Gogh and Degas. This is a masterpiece of the Western Art Museum. Although the name of the museum is western, the exhibition is also Japanese!

I saw the special exhibition of Van Gogh and Japan in Tokyo Art Museum, and I enjoyed learning and learned anecdotes about Van Gogh that I didn't know before.

It never occurred to me that Van Gogh, a Dutch master of art who is crazy about the whole world, has such deep roots with Japan. In the last period of his life, he lived in France, but he was greatly influenced by the Japanese ukiyo-e painting style, and even almost completely copied a picture of "based on flowers" in the Japanese album of Paris Pictorial in May 1886. It depicts the image of a Japanese kimono female geisha wearing a number of thick hairpins. What makes people laugh is that the orientation of Van Gogh's paintings and the original works of Japanese masters are opposite to each other. Through audio navigation, I know that Paris Pictorial had mirrored the painting when it was printing the original Japanese, so Van Gogh's paintings were painted according to Paris Pictorial, which also mirrored the original. The origin of Van Gogh and Japanese paintings can be seen.

This exhibition is not just Van Gogh's paintings, but shows the corresponding Japanese ukiyo-e paintings, showing the influence of Japanese art on Van Gogh. The exhibition also introduced Van Gogh's life experiences in the last few years, including the treatment after he became crazy. It also made me know that when Van Gogh moved to Arles, a small town in arles, he thought arles was just like Japan. He hopes to establish an artist alliance there, where artists all live together and help each other like family members. He found an artistic confidant, the famous Gauguin, and they lived together, which is the great friendship of "two lunatics" commented by later generations. This introduction helps me to understand the film Beloved Van Gogh that I just saw recently.

after watching the exhibition, I did some extended reading. It turns out that Van Gogh's reputation is famous and has something to do with Japan. In history, some Japanese buyers bought Van Gogh's works in the international market at staggering prices. Van Gogh's painting style was influenced by Japanese painting, but it became a whole, and later it influenced many artists in Japan in turn, which is really inextricably linked with Japan.

the third special exhibition we saw in Tokyo was the architectural design exhibition. If I hadn't experienced it personally, I would never have imagined that an architectural design exhibition could be like this.

Tadao Ando is the name of this designer. After the exhibition, I think he is really a designer worthy of Japanese pride.

This designer is still alive, and he is over 7 years old. His most proud design and production are three churches, namely the church of light, the church of water and the church of forest. Among them, the church of light in particular left a deep impression on me. He himself should be very satisfied with this work, so he made it the background of the whole exhibition poster.

The Church of Light is a clever design. It built a cross with light. It was the outdoor light, which entered the church through the gap between four square concrete blocks, and made people in the church feel the magic of the light pen, depicting the suffering of Jesus and its grand spirit.

This is also the largest exhibition. The design of the Church of Light is built exactly outside the exhibition hall with the same cement material according to the original one-to-one ratio, so that we can feel his ingenious work when we are not in Osaka.

The exhibition of the Church of Light is in the middle of the whole exhibition, not at the beginning. To tell the truth, people like me didn't know anything about Ando before. When I first started watching the exhibition, I was somewhat confused.

is this person so powerful? What is a special exhibition worthy of commemorating the tenth anniversary of the opening of the new National Art Museum? This kind of doubt also comes from the planning of the exhibition. At the beginning, he talked about the houses he designed.

A house he designed for his guests is not very comfortable and convenient to live in, because his idea is that human beings still have to contact with nature. Therefore, the house is very inconvenient from the point of view of living. From the living room to the living room, it has to go through an open-air patio.

The guest asked him, "What if it is very cold?"

Ando will say, "Then put on more clothes."

The guest asks again, "What if it rains frequently? "

Ando said again," So you are going to take an umbrella! "

All these things are learned from the Chinese audio guide, which can especially help me, a foreigner, to understand the design ideas of this Japanese designer.

Looking at it, I gradually feel that Ando is a very powerful designer.

There are many of his masterpieces all over the world. Among the projects under construction are the ruins of the Paris Stock Exchange Center and the museum to be transformed. The customs building in Venice, Italy, has to be renovated and revived after 15 years of abandonment, and the task has also been given to him. There is also the Genisis Museum he is building in Beijing, and so on. He is really a world-class design master.

In fact, besides visiting three special exhibitions in Tokyo, I also visited many museums during my two-week trip. I visited the Chinese Character Museum in Kyoto, and saw the exhibition of Nara National Museum and County Museum in Nara, which were also quite good.

It's very easy to understand that people must queue up to see the exhibition, but in the process of seeing the exhibition, I was deeply impressed by the sight of people queuing.

Before I went to Japan, I had heard that the order in Japan was particularly good. A friend who had lived in New Zealand for a long time said that he took his children to Japan. It turned out that the children were naughty and were honest when they saw the orderly order in Japan.

As far as I can see, in fact, the phenomenon of queuing can be seen everywhere. The most common queuing is outside restaurants, which is no special difference from our country, but it is very new for me to watch an exhibition and be willing to queue for a long time.

That day in Ueno Park, we were going to see an exhibition. Passing a garden green in the center of the park, I saw a lot of people waiting in line. Take a closer look, and in the opposite direction is an art gallery. I am very curious about what exhibition can attract so many people to line up for a closer look. It is a "horror painting exhibition".

I don't know what's hidden in it, but there are so many people waiting in line. As a good Samaritan, I quickly walked from the head of the team to the end of the team, which actually took more than three minutes. At the end of the line, there was a staff member holding a big sign with a big number, 2. It means that it takes 2 minutes to queue from the end of the queue to the ticket office where tickets can be bought, which is more than three hours.

It's winter in Tokyo. It's not cold, but it's not warm at 3 degrees. In the cold air, it takes more than three hours to queue up, and it's almost 4 o'clock in the afternoon to buy tickets, but there are still so many people waiting in line, and their faces don't show anxious expression. It seems that waiting in line for such a long time for tickets and watching an exhibition is a very normal thing.

I don't know whether such a queue can be alleviated by better reservation, but such a long queue does show me a unique scenery in Japan, probably because of the lack of island resources, and I have to accept it and wait in my life.

let's go back to the exhibition! One of the sources of shock at Japan's special exhibition is comparison. The object of comparison is the domestic special exhibition I have seen.

I just came back from Japan and found that a special exhibition called "Beauty in the New Era" is being held in China Art Museum. There are so many good works, and they are all famous works by everyone, such as Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Wu Guanzhong, Wu Changshuo, Li Keran, etc., which fascinates me. Almost fifty years old, it's the first time for me to see so many masterpieces by famous teachers in China!

the work is really good. I don't know if it is curated. Maybe I just finished watching the exhibition in Japan, but I think this exhibition is a bit sloppy. Everyone's masterpieces are simply and rudely piled up on the wall, and there is no mechanism. Except for a biography of each famous artist, there is not even any introduction to each work, and there is no audio tour throughout. You know, what role does audio guided tour play in a foreigner's understanding of China's art! I remember, I've been talking about confidence recently. Cultural and artistic self-confidence may be reflected in the performance of "you don't understand me and you deserve it".

Of course, compared with Japanese exhibitions, this special exhibition of China Art Exhibition has one advantage, that is, it does not accept tickets. However, if it's only a shortcoming of ticket revenue, I'd rather collect some tickets for our special exhibition of China Art Museum and make it as shocking as the Japanese art exhibition!

I never imagined that what impressed me most in Japan was not the food, the scenery, the rice cooker or even the toilet lid, but the special exhibition of the art museum. This is quite different from what I expected before, but after the shock, I gained a lot. Japan's crimes against China have not been alleviated in my heart, but this trip to Japan has made me see a Japan that I never expected and surprised me through my own eyes.