DOI Heft:
No. 368 (November 1923)
DOI Artikel:[Studio-talk]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21398#0318
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TOKYO
namesake Alexander Iacovleff) belongs
to that group of young Russian artists who
are devoting themselves to the pursuit of
ideals in classic painting and whose efforts
are centred on endeavouring to endow it
with new life. a a a 0
TOKYO.—The second annual exhibi-
tion of the Todai Chosokai, an associa-
tion of sculptors, was recently held at the
Takenodai Building, Uyeno Park, Tokyo.
It embraced a wide variety of subjects in-
terestingly treated in bronze, plaster and
wood. The works revealed results of a
Zealous struggle now raging among young
sculptors of Nippon to produce something
worth while, something that will lead the
way for the strugglers in the dark. For,
indeed, as in other branches of art, dark-
ness still prevails in sculpture, though not
without some signs of approaching dawn.
To be sure, the members of the association
are not without competent leaders, as the
recent exhibition contained commendable
works by such artists of unusual ability
and established reputation as Asakura-
Fumio, Naito-Shin, Asakura-Uichiro, and
" A DANCER.” CARVED ON
WOOD BY IKEDA-SHOYA
Ishikawa-Kakuji. Among the exhibitors at
this exhibition were a number of young
progressive sculptors in whose hands the
future of our glyptic art is deemed by
many largely to rest. 0 a a
Head of a Girl in bronze, by Ando-
Terasu, for its meritorious qualities, for a
forceful expression of a sound conception,
was awarded the medal of the association.
A careful survey of the whole of the ex-
hibits showed an inward strife for a suitable
mode of expression. There is a strong
endeavour to be new, to break away from
the old tradition. The attainment of the
end is sought by two divergent methods ;
either by building on the old stock by
quickening it with a modern life, giving it
a new interpretation, or by a clean depar-
ture from the tradition in modes and
technique, a conscious deviation from the
phcenix UNDER paulownia” Past in an effort to create something new,
carved on wood by sazaki-daiju new as the minds of those who allow them-
298
TOKYO
namesake Alexander Iacovleff) belongs
to that group of young Russian artists who
are devoting themselves to the pursuit of
ideals in classic painting and whose efforts
are centred on endeavouring to endow it
with new life. a a a 0
TOKYO.—The second annual exhibi-
tion of the Todai Chosokai, an associa-
tion of sculptors, was recently held at the
Takenodai Building, Uyeno Park, Tokyo.
It embraced a wide variety of subjects in-
terestingly treated in bronze, plaster and
wood. The works revealed results of a
Zealous struggle now raging among young
sculptors of Nippon to produce something
worth while, something that will lead the
way for the strugglers in the dark. For,
indeed, as in other branches of art, dark-
ness still prevails in sculpture, though not
without some signs of approaching dawn.
To be sure, the members of the association
are not without competent leaders, as the
recent exhibition contained commendable
works by such artists of unusual ability
and established reputation as Asakura-
Fumio, Naito-Shin, Asakura-Uichiro, and
" A DANCER.” CARVED ON
WOOD BY IKEDA-SHOYA
Ishikawa-Kakuji. Among the exhibitors at
this exhibition were a number of young
progressive sculptors in whose hands the
future of our glyptic art is deemed by
many largely to rest. 0 a a
Head of a Girl in bronze, by Ando-
Terasu, for its meritorious qualities, for a
forceful expression of a sound conception,
was awarded the medal of the association.
A careful survey of the whole of the ex-
hibits showed an inward strife for a suitable
mode of expression. There is a strong
endeavour to be new, to break away from
the old tradition. The attainment of the
end is sought by two divergent methods ;
either by building on the old stock by
quickening it with a modern life, giving it
a new interpretation, or by a clean depar-
ture from the tradition in modes and
technique, a conscious deviation from the
phcenix UNDER paulownia” Past in an effort to create something new,
carved on wood by sazaki-daiju new as the minds of those who allow them-
298