Ryūsei Kishida

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Ryūsei Kishida
Ryūsei Kishida
Born(1891-06-23)June 23, 1891
Tokyo, Japan
DiedDecember 20, 1929(1929-12-20) (aged 38)
Tokuyama, Yamaguchi
NationalityJapanese
Known forPainter
MovementYōga

Ryūsei Kishida (岸田 劉生, Kishida Ryūsei, June 23, 1891 – December 20, 1929) was a

Shōwa period Japan. He is best known for his realistic yōga-style portraiture, but also for his nihonga
paintings in the 1920s.

Biography

Kishida was born in the Ginza district of Tokyo in 1891, the son of Kishida Ginkō, a noted journalist who once assisted James Curtis Hepburn compile his Japanese-English dictionary. Kishida left school in 1908 to study Western-style art under Kuroda Seiki at his Hakubakai studio. He began exhibiting his works at the government’s annual Bunten exhibition in 1910.

While his earliest works reflect the

post-impressionism. The group soon collapsed due to internal conflicts after holding two exhibitions, but Kishida created another circle called Sōdosha in 1915.[1] Among his associates in this group was the artist Kohno Michisei
.

From around 1917, Kishida relocated his residence to the seaside Kugenuma neighborhood of Fujisawa, Kanagawa, near the summer home of his friend Mushanokōji. He also began to incorporate the techniques of northern European Renaissance artists such as Albrecht Dürer and Van Eyck into realistic portraiture, but did not directly copy their styles. During this period, he painted his famous series of paintings of his daughter Reiko, which combine photographic realism with almost surreal decorative elements, which exhibit the tension between expressionism and technique. His famous Kiritōshi no shasei, also painted near this time realistically depicts a path through a hill. However, it is not[2] an actual path that Kishida viewed and painted, but is a “universal scene” which could be set anywhere in the world, at any point in time.[3]

In the early 1920s, Kishida suddenly expressed a new interest for

Kamakura in February 1926. In the 1920s, he came to be noted as an art historian as well as a painter, writing numerous articles on Aesthetics and Japanese painting.[5]

In 1929, sponsored by the

South Manchuria Railway Company, Kishida made his one and only overseas trip, visiting Dalian, Fengtian and Harbin in Manchuria. On his way back to Kamakura, he made a stop at Tokuyama, Yamaguchi, where he died of uremia at the age of 38. His grave is at the Tama Cemetery in Fuchū, Tokyo
.

After his death, two of his paintings were designated

National Important Cultural Properties by the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs
.

In December 2000, one of his portraits Reiko a shawl on her shoulders was sold for 360 million

Yen, the highest price ever achieved in auction for a Japanese painting.[6]

Portrait of Reiko Sitting
Hakone, Kanagawa

Noted works

Gallery

  • A Road Cut Through a Hill (1915)
    A Road Cut Through a Hill (1915)
  • Camellias (c. 1924)
    Camellias (c. 1924)
  • Woman with a Pumpkin (1914)
    Woman with a Pumpkin (1914)
  • The Ginza (1911)
    The Ginza (1911)
  • An Apple on Top of a Pot (1916)
    An Apple on Top of a Pot (1916)

References

  1. ^ Burghaus, International Futurism in Arts and Literature. Page 251
  2. ^ Actually, it is a real path, at Yoyogi (Tokyo). See Catalogue Kishida Ryusei 2001, page 51.
  3. ^ Kato, Shuichi, Japan:Spirit and Form. Page 248
  4. ^ "Artists of Shunyo-kai: Celebrating Its 100th Anniversary". Tokyo Station. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
  5. ^ Kita, The Last Tosa. page.57
  6. ^ Goodwin, The International Art markets. Page. 213

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