Wada Eisaku

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In this Japanese name, the surname is Wada.
Wada Eisaku
和田英作
Born(1874-12-23)December 23, 1874
Tarumizu, Kagoshima Prefecture
DiedJanuary 3, 1959(1959-01-03) (aged 84)
Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture
NationalityJapanese
Known forPainter
MovementYōga

Wada Eisaku (和田英作, December 23, 1874 – January 3, 1959) was a Japanese painter and luminary of the

Shōwa eras.[1][2] He was a member of the Japan Art Academy, an Imperial Household Artist, a recipient of the Order of the Sacred Treasure and Order of Culture, an Officier in the Légion d'honneur, and a Person of Cultural Merit.[3]

Biography

Born in what is now the city of

Fourth National Industrial Exhibition, his Early Summer Beside the Sea was awarded a "Virtuosity Prize" (similarly honoured were Kuroda (for his scandalizing Morning Toilette), Kume, and Asai Chū).[4]

Kyōto in 1895 caused a scandal, caricatured here by Bigot in La femme nue[6]

In 1896 Wada was involved, along with Kuroda and Kume, in the establishment of the

Fifth National Industrial Exhibition, in 1903, where again he was awarded a runners-up prize.[3][4] When he stayed in Paris, he held a gathering of haiku poets with Beisai Kubota.[9]

Returning to Japan, via Italy, also in 1903 he was appointed professor at his

wall paintings of the Hōryū-ji kondō.[5] In 1943 he was a recipient of the Order of Culture.[3] In 1945 he evacuated to what is now Yamatokōriyama in Nara Prefecture, then to Chiryū in Aichi Prefecture.[3] In 1951 he was recognized as a Person of Cultural Merit[3] and moved to Shimizu in Shizuoka Prefecture, where he died in 1959, posthumously receiving the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 1st Class.[3]

Works

Representative works include his early Evening at the Ferry Crossing (1897), Thoughts of Home (1902), and Kodama (1902); his mid-life series of portraits; and his late Ue-no-Midō (1945) and Summer Clouds (1950).

Academism with German Expressionism as a "complete restatement and settlement" (総決算)[4] of Wada's period of study abroad;[4][12] in Harada's words, it "evokes a Romantic sensuousness through gentle shading of the figure and barely visible handling of the brush";[2] the painting has also been likened in effect to Munch's The Scream.[12]

Exhibitions

Dedicated retrospectives include the 2002 Wada Eisaku (和田英作展), at the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2007 Modern Western Master: Wada Eisaku (近代洋畫的巨匠 和田英作展), at the Kariya City Art Museum, 2014 Wada Eisaku (和田英作展), at the Kagoshima City Museum of Art, and 2016 Japanese Modern Yōga Master: Wada Eisaku (日本近代洋画の巨匠 和田英作展), again at the Kariya City Art Museum.[13]

Gallery

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eisaku Wada.

References

  1. ^ 和田英作 [Wada Eisaku] (in Japanese). Hiroshima Museum of Art. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  2. ^
    Weatherhill
    . pp. 96–98.
  3. ^
    Tobunken
    . Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p 和田英作 [Wada Eisaku] (in Japanese). IAI National Museum of Art 国立美術館. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k 和田英作 [Wada Eisaku] (in Japanese). Kariya City Art Museum. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
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  7. ^ "Museum". Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst. Retrieved July 17, 2020.
  8. ^ action common download&item id=1405&item no=1&attribute id=22&file no=1 蝶の図像から蝶の図案へ: 和田英作の三井呉服店絵葉書からみる明治時代後期百貨店の広告イメージ 向後恵里子 - 明星大学研究紀要. 人文学部・日本文化学科, 2017,p77
  9. ^ 蝶の図像から蝶の図案へ: 和田英作の三井呉服店絵葉書からみる明治時代後期百貨店の広告イメージ 向後恵里子 - 明星大学研究紀要. 人文学部・日本文化学科, 2017,p77
  10. ^ 黒田清輝先生のスケッチブック
  11. ^ 和田英作 [Wada Eisaku] (in Japanese). Pola Museum of Art. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  12. ^ a b こだま [Kodama] (in Japanese). Sen-oku Hakuko Kan. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  13. ^ 和田英作 [Wada Eisaku] (in Japanese). Galerie Nichido 日動画廊. Retrieved July 18, 2020.; 日本近代洋画の巨匠 和田英作展 [Japanese Modern Yōga Master: Wada Eisaku Exhibition] (in Japanese). Kariya City Art Museum. Retrieved July 18, 2020.

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