TAB Event - Ryusei Kishida "Art and Life"

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At New Otani Art Museum
Media: Painting, Drawing

Ryusei Kishida (1891-1929) is well-known for this "Portrait of Reiko", in which he used his own beloved daughter as model. He was one of the most outstanding and unique painters in the Japanese "yoga" style during the Taisho and early Showa periods. Although he passed away at the young age of 38, Kishida produced an oeuvre of disproportionate impact, with many works that brought about fruitful change for the genre.
Kishida entered the Hakuba-kai for yoga painting at 17 and studied oil painting with Kiyoteru Kuroda, while simultaneously becoming influenced by the work of the late Impressionists, such as van Gogh and Cezanne, through the pages of the art and culture magazine Shirakaba. Later, Kishida fell for the photographic realism of northern European Renaissance painters like Durer, and began pursuing his own studies of painterly realism, seeking to evoke the "inner beauty" of things and people. From the latter half of the Taisho period onwards, Kishida did a volte-face and turned towards eastern art, in particular Chinese painting of the Song and Yuan dynasties, as well as early ukiyo-e woodblock prints. This eastern aesthetic attracted him and began to be reflected in his own work.
In addition to works from the collection of the Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, this exhibition showcases self-portraits and other oil paintings, nihonga, watercolors, rough sketches and book binding illustrations - a total of about 70 works.

Please visit the exhibition website for more details.

[Image: "Portrait of Girl (Standing Image of Reiko)" (1923) oil on canvas, 53.2 x 45.5 cm. From the collection of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art]

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