From Sketch to Draft, Study, and Painting

Chikkyo Art Museum

Finished

Artists

Chikkyo Ono et al.

Chikkyo Ono's paintings, with their clear lines and clear colors, lighten the viewer's heart and mind but do not reveal the hard work that went into their completion. However, sketches, preliminary drawings, and studies reveal the various processes that Ono went through before completing his works. Ono wrote down in sketches the scenes that moved him, and countless sketches were sometimes made into the final painting many years later.

The preliminary sketches also show traces of corrections and trial paintings, indicating that Ono was making his works while hesitating and experimenting. The studies of the same composition that remain in the exhibition show Ono's uncompromising attention to the details of color and form. This exhibition introduces the painstaking process of creation through a total of approximately 70 sketches, preliminary sketches, studies, and paintings.

Chikkyo Ono said in 1946, "Paintings are not created, but born" (Chikkyo Ono, "Born Paintings"). At that time, Ono was in the process of establishing a clear painting style that could be described as the Chikkyo style, after a period of enthusiastic and repeated trial-and-error exploration. In the background of this period, Ono's view of art was changing due to the mental burden of separation from his close friends, as well as his search and suffering in production. The image of a "living painting" can be said to have been arrived at as a result of this period of enlightenment. Along with the change in his painting style, the objects he sketched and the way he sketched them also changed.

In addition to Ono's works, the exhibition will also include works by artists associated with the Chikkyo Museum collection.

Schedule

Jul 1 (Sat) 2023-Aug 27 (Sun) 2023