Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
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The Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (広島市現代美術館) is an art museum founded in 1989. It is in Hijiyama Park in the Hiroshima City
, Japan
. The building was designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa.
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Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. The building was designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa.
Representative collections
| works | artist |
|---|---|
| The Arch, Atom Piece | Henry Moore Henry Moore Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art.... |
| Akino Tsubasa | Kiichi Sumikawa |
| Tea time in the midnight | Akinori Sako |
| Marilyn | Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art... |
| Raqqa I, Talladega Three II | Frank Stella Frank Stella Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker, significant within the art movements of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.-Biography:... |
| untitled | Donald Judd Donald Judd Donald Clarence Judd was an American artist associated with minimalism . In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy... |
| Wine | Morris Louis |
| Sakanano Atama (The head of a Fish) | Aimitsu Aimitsu Ai-Mitsu was a Japanese artist and painter. He is usually identified as a Surrealist although he also painted works that can be classified in other styles and genres.... |
| Fukugo gattai 401 Hiroshima | Yoshishige Saito |
| Dome | Isamu Wakabayashi |
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