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High-Definition Digital
Monet’s “Water Lilies, Reflections of Weeping Willows”
Tuesday, March 12-Sunday, May 12, 2024



Overview

NTT ArtTechnology Corporation approves the intent of the exhibition “Does the Future Sleep Here? Revisiting the museum’s response to contemporary art after 65 years” at the National Museum of Western Art (NMWA) and has offered its cooperation. In line with this cooperation, we have digitized NMWA’s Claude Monet piece “Water Lilies, Reflections of Weeping Willows” in order to collaborate in creating a work by Takemura Kei, one of the participating artists.
The piece, dated “1916” by Monet, is an enormous oil painting, 199 centimeters high by 424 centimeters wide. It depicts the surface of a water lily pond with an inverted reflection of willow trees. The whereabouts of this piece were uncertain for a long time, but it was discovered inside the Louvre Museum in 2016. The results of an investigation proved that it was part of the Matsukata Collection, so the Matsukata family donated it to NMWA in 2017. However, much of the upper half of the piece is missing, and its appearance in its entirety could be confirmed only through black-and-white photographs taken before it was damaged. NMWA left the missing portion as it was and carried out restoration work on the remaining portion for about one year.
Now, Takemura is exhibiting a work in collaboration with Monet’s “Water Lilies, Reflections of Weeping Willows.” She used a high-definition, digital print made by NTT ArtTechnology Corporation and Ars Techne Corporation as she created this in her studio.
Visitors to the NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] can see a variety of displays that utilize digital technology, such as a faithfully reproduced, actual-size, high-definition reproduction of “Water Lilies, Reflections of Weeping Willows” and an enlarged image approximately double the painting’s length and width, in the same period of the exhibition at NMWA.
Feel free to enjoy this masterpiece of unity with nature from Monet’s later years, even including details of the painting like the force of the brush strokes.

DATE: Tuesday, March 12-Sunday, May 12, 2024
Venue: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] 5th Floor Lobby
Hours: 11:00am-6:00pm (Admission until 30 minutes before closing time)
Closed: Mondays (if Monday is a holiday, then Tuesday); open Tuesday, April 30)
Admission Fee: Free
Contact:
e-mail:bunka-ml@east.ntt.co.jp TEL:0120-114-677

Organizer: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation
Project Management: NTT ArtTechnology Corporation
Project Cooperation: The National Museum of Western Art
Cooperation: Ars Techne Corporation, KYOCERA Corporation

Flyer (front)[PDF]
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Flyer (back)[PDF]
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Claude Monet “Water Lilies, Reflections of Weeping Willows”
Exhibition Outline

(1) Full-size high-definition reproduction (199.3 × 424.4 cm)
(2) Enlarged high-definition reproduction (382 × 800 cm)
(3) Floating Giga Viewer
View the painting by enlarging at will on a monitor.
(4) Interview with Takemura Kei (video)