TAB Event - Kaoru Yamaguchi Exhibition

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At Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
Media: Painting, Other

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Born in Minowa Village in Gunma Prefecture (now Misato Town in Takasaki City), Kaoru Yamaguchi (1907-1968) grew up amid abundant nature during his childhood and then started pursuing a career as a painter. After studying at Tokyo Art School (now Tokyo University of the Arts) and also in France, he became involved with the formation of the Free Art Association and Modern Art Association as a member of Chuo Gadan, devoting himself to the creation of Japanese-style yoga (western) paintings.
Pastoral landscapes, trees and water against a red backdrop, the moon, horses... Yamaguchi poured his imagination onto the canvas through the depiction of the nature around him, in rich colors and forms. His unique style of expression was formed during the pre- and postwar periods, when art went through a sea change, through his constant efforts to tackle the possibilities of figurative art, in search of a style of his own.
By displaying about 90 paintings according to shifts in his painting style, this exhibition aims to trace Yamaguchi's artistic endeavors at different points throughout his career.

[Image: "Figure of Flower" (1937) Collection of Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art Kahitsukan]

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