Nihonga refers to traditional Japanese folk painting, a concept that was only widely used after the Meiji Restoration. At the end of the 19th century, with the introduction of painting techniques and theoretical ideas in Europe and other places, the process of Western painting and eastern painting was deeply manifested in Japan, and a wave of learning and creation of Western paintings was set off in Japan, while the opposite national painting based on traditional materials and techniques was called Japanese painting.
Traditional Japanese painting, which has been passed down for more than 2,000 years, has been strongly influenced by Chinese painting and Western painting in history, and has been widely recognized and developed internationally in contemporary times. Today, let's approach three contemporary Japanese painters and taste the taste of Japanese painting in the rotation of taste, character and meaning.
Junya Hirata
Swim in the clouds and water, birds love fish. Where the flowers are illusionary, the smoke and rain are confused.
Modern Japanese painting presents a variety of characteristics in terms of materials, techniques, and expression methods, which gives traditional Japanese painting a broader space for development.
Dance of Heaven
Cloud water place I
Place of Clouds II
Shine moments
Fountain of Flowers
Using traditional Japanese painting materials such as washi paper (hemp paper), ink, glue, beard powder, gold leaf, and mineral pigments, the painter Junya Tsubota superimposed images of the sky and water on themes such as animals and flowers, completing the fusion of figuration and abstraction from a more modern perspective. In the poetic dream scene, there is both the aesthetic consciousness of the Japanese tradition and some futuristic atmosphere. Drawing on the help of her predecessors, Junya Hirata attempts to create new forms of harmony in the space of contemporary art.
Spring outing
The light between the leaves
Junya Hirata, born in Saitama Prefecture in 1974, received the Tokyo University of the Arts Anzai Prize in 1997, graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Tokyo University of the Arts in 1999, majored in Japanese Painting, completed the Master's Program in Japanese Painting at the Graduate School of the University in 2001, and won the "Aoki 2001 Japanese Painting Exhibition Honor Award" that year. In 2002, Junya Hirata traveled to Europe and returned to Japan in 2003 to continue her work.
Stardrop Water Lily I
Stardrop Water Lily II
Blue sky blooms
Chizuru Takizaki
Warm spring wind, summer to find light, autumn to smell the falling flowers, winter frost picking. The seasons are always naughty like a child, but if you are willing to look closely, you can still discover their hidden little secrets.
flower
lamp
Takigasaki Chizuru was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1964 and graduated from Tokyo Gakugei University in 1997. In 1994, Chizuru Takizaki, who was still in his studies, was selected for the "Aoki Japanese Painting Exhibition" that year with a painting of "Summer Leaves", and in 1996, he won the first prize of the exhibition. In the following 20 years, Chizuru Takisaki has exhibited nearly 100 times in Japan, and his long-term creativity is due to his extraordinary observation of nature and everything.
Autumn cherry blossoms
mimosa
Chizuru Takisaki, 57, opened his own Japanese painting workshop in Tokyo, where he continues to teach his beloved traditional Japanese art while providing painting rental business. In his spare time, he grows flowers and plants in his garden, and hikes through the mountains and fields of Japan between exhibitions.
apple
lotus
Chizuru Takisaki believes that as small as a bud and as large as a forest, both have their own unknown expressions, and only by carefully observing can they understand the joy of this grass and leaves. Those who are familiar with Chizuru Takisaki will always find the most timely "flower news" in his works, because the "secret of the seasons" lies in his low-back and gentle brushstrokes--reading nature, he also reads himself.
cherry blossom
White vine
cherry
Yuriko Teramoto
Closer to life, you will smell the fragrance of color; a little closer, you will see a faint flow of illusion. They are like ghosts in the middle of the night, weaving a huge web of breathing in the dark rhyme, waiting for the intoxicated night returnees to fall into it.
Feast of the Night
paradise
The sound of summoning
Yuriko Teramoto is a contemporary female painter living in the Kanto region of Japan who has created a series of beautiful works in the form of traditional Japanese paintings around the theme of "the micro-glow of life".
Spring
The Illusion of Summer Nights
Dye gold
Winter's Rut
Using mineral pigments and glues unique to Japanese painting to express the transition of color and the effect of halos, Yuriko Teramoto inherits the traditional techniques of Japanese painting while incorporating the characteristics of watercolor into her creation. This innovative and unique color expression plays a crucial role in the artistic expression and emotional transmission of the work.
Parade
sign
Being born and grown up in this fertile land is cruel and at the same time lucky. Feel the presence of life, and be grateful for those who survive strongly in order to make other beings feel a sense of existence. If you can witness these micro-rays with your own eyes, you will understand the preciousness of life and the selflessness of all things.
INTERVIEWER Yuriko Teramoto
makeup
Flowers
Special seats
lifeline
Symbiosis with nature, some people choose to praise its vastness, and some people are willing to lean down and taste its slenderness. After the Tang style murals of the Nara period, the Yamato paintings of the Heian and Kamakura periods, the Zen ink paintings of the Muromachi period, the gorgeous scenery of the Azuchi Momoyama period and the ukiyo-e paintings of the Edo period, modern Japanese paintings, while maintaining local culture, actively absorb the essence of European and American culture, based on tradition, and pass on and integrate, so that this ancient oriental painting art has both decoration, sense of the times and ethnic rhyme, and has always been a bright pearl in the world art forest.
At the beginning of this year, Eye Edge Art Zhi launched the "Japanese Traditional Painting Appreciation" column, which presented traditional Japanese paintings with different themes in 6 issues, which won the favor of many readers. Next, we will launch the second season of the show, in order to enrich the artistic vision of readers with more works. At the same time, this is also the first New Year gift that Eye Edge Yizhi will present to everyone in 2022, friends who like Japanese painting, please stay tuned.
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