DOI Heft:
No. 237 (December 1912)
DOI Artikel:Harada, Jirō: The old and new schools of Japanese painting
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21158#0257
Japanese Paintings
“on bentenjima ” (oil)
(Kojukai Exhibition)
Arts is increasing out of all proportion to those in
other courses, and the former now outnumber the
students in Japanese painting by more than two to
one. Furthermore, a few of our artists in oil seem
to be assuming the right attitude towards Western
art, and the local public is having an occasional
glimpse of the aesthetic value of oil painting as seen
in a real masterpiece.
Two exhibitions of paintings in the Western style
were recently held in Uyeno Park, Tokyo, by the
Taiheiyogakai and the
Kofukai, and most of the
many pictures displayed
there were painted in oils.
They came from all parts
of Japan, but the works
of Tokyo artists pre-
dominated. One could
not fail to observe that
the present tendency is
towards strong and vivid
colours. Judging from
their work, most of the
young artists consider
brightness the prime re-
quisite in oil painting.
Apparently they are
striving to follow the ten-
dencies of a certain school
in France, with which
they are somewhat in
touch through men who
have studied in Paris and “low tide” (oil)
are assuming the position
of leaders here. The
conservatives fear that the
younger painters in oil
are going astray, and, in
consequence, are pessi-
mistic about the future.
However, the exhibitions
were well attended and
it would seem that the
Western style of painting
is becoming popular in
Japan.
At the exhibition
organised by the Tai-
heiyogakai there were
over five hundred pic-
tures. The Taiheiyo-
gakai is an influential
society under the leader-
ship of prominent artists,
among them being Nakagawa Hachiro, whose Spring
Evening is reproduced among our illustrations.
The society includes many promising young artists,
and quite a number of pictures have been pur-
chased by the Empress as well as by_the Depart-
ment of the Imperial Household.
For some time the Taiheiyogakai was one of
the two large rival societies of yogaka, as the
artists who follow the Western style of painting are
called. The other was the Hakubakai. Both are
BY KOBAYASHI SHOKICHI
(Kofukai Exhibition )
BY ATOMI TAI
23S
“on bentenjima ” (oil)
(Kojukai Exhibition)
Arts is increasing out of all proportion to those in
other courses, and the former now outnumber the
students in Japanese painting by more than two to
one. Furthermore, a few of our artists in oil seem
to be assuming the right attitude towards Western
art, and the local public is having an occasional
glimpse of the aesthetic value of oil painting as seen
in a real masterpiece.
Two exhibitions of paintings in the Western style
were recently held in Uyeno Park, Tokyo, by the
Taiheiyogakai and the
Kofukai, and most of the
many pictures displayed
there were painted in oils.
They came from all parts
of Japan, but the works
of Tokyo artists pre-
dominated. One could
not fail to observe that
the present tendency is
towards strong and vivid
colours. Judging from
their work, most of the
young artists consider
brightness the prime re-
quisite in oil painting.
Apparently they are
striving to follow the ten-
dencies of a certain school
in France, with which
they are somewhat in
touch through men who
have studied in Paris and “low tide” (oil)
are assuming the position
of leaders here. The
conservatives fear that the
younger painters in oil
are going astray, and, in
consequence, are pessi-
mistic about the future.
However, the exhibitions
were well attended and
it would seem that the
Western style of painting
is becoming popular in
Japan.
At the exhibition
organised by the Tai-
heiyogakai there were
over five hundred pic-
tures. The Taiheiyo-
gakai is an influential
society under the leader-
ship of prominent artists,
among them being Nakagawa Hachiro, whose Spring
Evening is reproduced among our illustrations.
The society includes many promising young artists,
and quite a number of pictures have been pur-
chased by the Empress as well as by_the Depart-
ment of the Imperial Household.
For some time the Taiheiyogakai was one of
the two large rival societies of yogaka, as the
artists who follow the Western style of painting are
called. The other was the Hakubakai. Both are
BY KOBAYASHI SHOKICHI
(Kofukai Exhibition )
BY ATOMI TAI
23S