■What "Reading Oil Paintings" means■ Gallery Talk August16.2001 Prof. Shinsuke UTADA X-ray photographs show that the painters in the former half of the Meiji-era studied European traditional techniques and materials faithfully. In the latter half of the Meiji-era, painters like KURODA introduced new techniques from France, which express shade parts without using black or brown colors. However, X-ray photographs show that the traditional techniques were not passed down correctly. ・What "Reading Oil Paintings" means ・Gallery Talk, August 9 ・Gallery Talk, August 16 ・Gallery Talk, August 23 ・Gallery Talk, August 30 ・Gallery Talk, September 6 ・Gallery Talk, September 13 ・Gallery Talk, September 20		left: Hisashi MATSUOKA "Girl" right: Charles WIRGMAN "GOSEDA Horyu" X-ray photographs show the difference between Japanese and European painters in the way they looked at the things.