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Bunten
The is a Japanese art exhibition established in 1907. The exhibition consists of five art faculties: Japanese Style and Western Style Painting, Sculpture, Craft as Art, and Sho ( calligraphy). During each exhibition, works of the great masters are shown alongside works of new but talented artists. It claims to be the largest combined art exhibition of its kind in the world and the most popular in Japan. Bunten In 1907, under the supervision of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, then called Mombushō (文部省), the first state art exhibition took place, the Monbushō Bijtsu Tenrankai (文部省 美術展 覧 会), abbreviated to "bunten" (文 展). It was held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (東京都美術館, Tōkyō-to Bijutsukan.)It had the three faculties: Japanese Style Painting, Western Style Painting and Sculpture. Works were approved after being examined by a jury. The series of exhibitions took place twelve times under this name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nakamura Tsune
(3 July 1887 – 24 December 1924) was a Japanese yōga painter best known for his portraits of Sōma Toshiko including ''Girl, Shojo'' (1914). Life Nakamura Tsune was born in 1887 in what is now Mito City, into a family that had served as samurai in the Mito domain. His father died the following year, his mother when he was eleven. He graduated from the in 1904 but was forced to abandon his plans for a career as a soldier after contracting tuberculosis. While recuperating, he developed aspirations to become a painter, and in 1906 joined the , before moving the following year to the . That same year he was baptised. In 1908 he began to socialize with artists including Ogiwara Rokuzan at the Atelier in Shinjuku. Two of his works, ''Cloudy Morning'' and ''Cliffs'' (now in the Museum of the Imperial Collections) featured in the Third Bunten Exhibition in 1909, the latter receiving a commendation. In 1911 he moved into a studio behind the Nakamura-ya. The following year ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wada Eisaku
was a Japanese painter and luminary of the '' yōga'' (or Western-style) scene in the late Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa eras. 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. Biography Born in what is now the city of Tarumizu, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, in 1874, little Eisaku moved to Azabu in Tokyo with his family at the age of four or five when his father , a pastor, was appointed as an instructor in English at the Naval Academy. In 1887 the young Wada entered the Protestant ; among his classmates was fellow yōga painter , while author Tōson Shimazaki was in one of the years above. After learning the rudiments of Western-style painting from Uesugi Kumatsu, with his introduction, dropping out of Meiji Gakuin in 1891, he studied alongside Miyake and under Soyama Sachihiko at his painting school. After h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan Art Academy
is the highest-ranking official artistic organization in Japan. It is established as an extraordinary organ of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁, Bunkacho) in the thirty-first article of the law establishing the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The Academy discusses art-related issues, advises the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology on art-related issues, and promotes arts in three categories: 1) fine art, 2) literary arts, 3) music, drama, and dance. It is closely associated with the annual Japan Art Academy Exhibition ''(Nitten''), the premier art exhibition in Japan; the Japan Art Academy originally ran the Nitten but since 1958 the exhibition is run by a separate private institution. The Japan Art Academy headquarters is in Ueno Park, Tokyo. The Japan Art Academy should not be confused with the Japan Art Institute, which is a completely different organization. History The Japan Art Academy was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calligraphy
Calligraphy (from el, link=y, καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a pen, ink brush, or other writing instrument. Contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined as "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious, and skillful manner". Modern calligraphy ranges from functional inscriptions and designs to fine-art pieces where the letters may or may not be readable. Classical calligraphy differs from type design and non-classical hand-lettering, though a calligrapher may practice both. CD-ROM Calligraphy continues to flourish in the forms of wedding invitations and event invitations, font design and typography, original hand-lettered logo design, religious art, announcements, graphic design and commissioned calligraphic art, cut stone inscriptions, and memorial documents. It is also used for props and moving images for film and television, and also for testimonials, birth and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Museum Of Modern Art, Ibaraki
opened on the shore of in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, in October 1988. The collection, numbering some 3,700 pieces as of October 2015, includes works by Manet, Monet, and Renoir, Gustave Courbet, Eugène Carrière, Camille Pissarro und Alfred Sisley as well as ''Yōga'' and ''Nihonga'' by artists including Tsuguharu Foujita, Heihachirō Fukuda, Taikan Yokoyama, Yukihiko Yasuda, Tetsugoro Yorozu, Kanzan Shimomura, Kenzo Okada, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Kiyokata Kaburagi, Kokei Kobayashi, Gyoshū Hayami, Hishida Shunsō, and Shikō Imamura. Noteworthy works in the collection include ''Chrysanthèmes'' by Édouard Manet, ''Grotte de Port-Domois'' by Claude Monet and ''Portrait de Mademoiselle Francois'' by Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that " .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamatane Museum
The Yamatane Museum (山種美術館, ''Yamatane Bijutsukan'') is a museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical History (derived ) is the systematic study and th ... in Japan specializing in the nihonga style of Japanese watercolour painting. It is run by the Yamatane art foundation. The Yamatane museum was opened in 1966 by the Yamatane art foundation, an organization based on the personal collection of Yamazaki Taneji and the corporate collection of Yamatane securities (now SMBC Friend Securities). There is a long-term exhibition of lesser works, with periodic displays organized. The foundation organizes moving exhibitions of works in their possession. The museum owns famous nihonga paintings including some with "object of national cultural significance" status. The quality of their collection is very high. The mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tobunken
The , commonly known as Tobunken, is an institute dedicated to the preservation and utilization of cultural properties. It is one of the two institutes in Japan that comprise the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, an independent administrative institution created in 2001. History The Tobunken was founded in 1930 as the Art Research Institute with an endowment established by Kuroda Seiki, former president of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts (Japan Art Academy). In 1952, it was reorganized into the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties with the establishment of departments of Fine Arts, Performing Arts, Conservation Sciences, and General Affairs. A department of Restoration Techniques was added in 1973 and an archive set up in 1977. The Division of International Cooperation for Conservation was established in 1993 and then converted into the Japan Center for International Exchange in Conservation in 1995, expanding the Institute to its present scale. Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Education, Science, Sports And Culture .
The Ministry of Education was created in 1871. It merged with the into the new Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in 2001.The was a former Japanese government ministry. Its headquarters were in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo is a Special wards of Tokyo, special ward located in central Tokyo, Japan. It is known as Chiyoda City in English language, English. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
The is an art museum in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefectural government. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Museums"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', pp. 671-673. The current structure, designed by Kunio Maekawa, was completed in 1975. The museum is located in Ueno Park. Access * Ueno Station (with JR East and Tokyo Metro) * Uguisudani Station (with JR East) * Keisei Ueno Station (with Keisei Electric Railway) See also *Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum The is an art museum in Tokyo, Japan. The museum is located in Minato ward, just east of Meguro Station. The Art Deco building, completed in 1933, has interiors designed by Henri Rapin and features decorative glass work by René Lalique. Hist ... References External links Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nihonga
''Nihonga'' (, " Japanese-style paintings") are Japanese paintings from about 1900 onwards that have been made in accordance with traditional Japanese artistic conventions, techniques and materials. While based on traditions over a thousand years old, the term was coined in the Meiji period of Imperial Japan, to distinguish such works from Western-style paintings or '' Yōga'' (). History The impetus for reinvigorating traditional painting by developing a more modern Japanese style came largely from many artist/educators, which included Shiokawa Bunrin, Kōno Bairei, Tomioka Tessai and art critics Okakura Tenshin and Ernest Fenollosa, who attempted to combat Meiji Japan's infatuation with Western culture by emphasizing to the Japanese the importance and beauty of native Japanese traditional arts. These two men played important roles in developing the curricula at major art schools, and actively encouraged and patronized artists. ''Nihonga'' was not simply a continuation o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yōga
is a style of artistic painting in Japan, typically of Japanese subjects, themes, or landscapes, but using Western (European) artistic conventions, techniques, and materials. The term was coined in the Meiji period (1868–1912) to distinguish Western-influenced artwork from indigenous, or more traditional Japanese paintings, or . History Early works European painting was introduced to Japan during the late Muromachi period along with Christian missionaries from Portugal in 1543. Early religious works by Japanese artists in imitation of works brought by the missionaries can be considered some of the earliest forms of ''Yōga''. However, the policy of national seclusion introduced by the Tokugawa bakufu in the Edo period effectively ended the influence of western art on Japanese painting, with the exception of the use of perspective, which was discovered by Japanese artists in sketches found in European medical and scientific texts imported from the Dutch via Nagasaki. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Kantō Earthquake
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