�¡What "Reading Oil Paintings" means�¡ Gallery Talk August9.2001 Eriko NAKAU, Michiko SAKUMA (Postdoctor students) KUNISAWA is the first Japanese painter who studied in Europe. The procedure of Y.Takahashi's paintings has various points in common with the manual book of oil painting which KUNISAWA brought back from Britain. The New School painters like KURODA tried to express gentle backlight sunshine using delicate colors. �EWhat "Reading Oil Paintings" means �EGallery Talk, August 9 �EGallery Talk, August 16 �EGallery Talk, August 23 �EGallery Talk, August 30 �EGallery Talk, September 6 �EGallery Talk, September 13 �EGallery Talk, September 20		left: Shinkuro KUNISAWA "Portrait of Western Woman" right: X-ray photograph of "Portrait of Western Woman"