A couple of weeks ago, I attended an art exhibit in Kyoto. It was on a Saturday, so the museum was very crowed. I regretted to choose that day. I don't enjoy looking at artwork with lots of people because I can't fully focus on the art.

In Japan, many people love attending art shows featuring so called masterpieces, and I'm one of them.

The exhibit allowed visitors to take pictures, so I took some photos.

It's always fascinating to find masterpieces that we used to see only in our art textbooks. These Napoleon's portraits in the pictures below are very famous, and it was my fast time seeing them in person. I was a bit surprised by their size. It was hard to guess from the textbooks how large they were, but they were quite small.

The art show's theme was how paintings have been changing over for 400 years, and in the beginning, paintings were mainly related to religion. Then, art belonged to loyal people and upper class people. They loved been painted portraits. After the revolution, artists' interests sifted to ordinarily people.

I came across one of my favorite artists, Canaletto's piece.

At the end of the 18 century, impressionist painters appeared. They expressed their thoughts and emotions much more freely.

I was happy to find works by Marie Laurencin and Chagall.

I didn't expect I could see Sidaner's art, so when I came across his pieces, I was very excited. Even though the show was packed, it was worth visiting.

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