Today I would like to share with you a painting by a Japanese female painter.
Yuka Kokura is one of my favorite painters, both in her paintings and in her attitude towards life.
Born in 1895, Okura died in 2000 at the age of 105. She was a student of the famous Japanese painter and history painter: Yasuda Yasuda.
Yasuda once said to her: "People should return to the state they were in infancy every five years, become a blank piece of paper, and start all over again." ”
Keeping in mind the teacher's training, Kokura has been constantly pursuing new painting worlds and exploring and honing her artistic skills in the past century, and she has opened up a new painting realm while continuing the Tradition of Japanese Painting, and has been respected by everyone.
She inherited Yasuda's refined, elegant painting style and aesthetic orientation. At the same time, it also absorbs the essence of classical Chinese literature, so that her paintings present a fresh and subtle, simple and elegant, simple and pure style, and contain the realm of oriental aesthetics and the Taoist style.
Kokura studied Chinese at the Higher Girls' Normal School, so he has a good cultivation of Chinese culture and traditional culture compared to ordinary people.
For example, this painting can be named: "Yellow Dog Lying Flower Yin". Apparently, Kokura had read three words and two beats of the three difficult Su Bachelor, and knew the following allusion:
Wang Anshi, a famous poet of the Northern Song Dynasty, liked to change his poems. He changed poems for his contemporaries, but also for the ancients. Once, Wang Anshi saw two poems in a poem: "When the bright moon is empty, the yellow dog lies in the heart of the flower", Wang Anshi did not feel laughing after reading it, and thought: "How can the bright moon" be called? How could the yellow dog lie on the heart of the flower, so he proposed to change the pen to "when the moon is empty, the yellow dog lies in the flower yin". Later, when he traveled to the south, he found that there was a bird in the south called "Bright Moon", which sounded beautifully, and there was an insect called "Yellow Dog", which often flew around in the heart of the flower. Only then did he understand that those two verses were correct, and that he had corrected them wrong.
Her writing is also very beautiful, often submitted in newspapers and magazines, and her diary has been published in the member magazines of the Society, in which she objectively describes her way of life and state as a human being, as a woman, as a painter, and as a believer.
The anthologies titled "In the Studio" and "In the Continuing Studio" reveal her chinese culture and literary attainments, and the description is delicate, just like her paintings, showing us a world full of love and happiness.
Like Van Gogh, she seems to like golden yellow, many paintings are based on gold, with blue tones, giving people a unique aesthetic feeling, simple realism is not lacking in decorative interest, diffusing the atmosphere of Buddha-nature.
There are also many praises for her still life paintings. In fact, her first still life paintings unfolded in a situation of unavoidable life. Commenting on her still life paintings, Yasuda said: "The motivation for depicting still life paintings is that during the short time when he was teaching and caring for patients, Kokura used flowers, fruits, utensils, and other still life objects around him as materials. ”
She herself said, "It is not deliberately expressing a sense of modernity, but it does not deliberately emphasize the mysterious, but just casually sketches and depicts it at will." At that time, even if it did not resonate, it was still described in this way. ”
I like this wayward and casual painting attitude.
Those seemingly random still lifes, not deliberate, not demanding attitude highlight the painter's extraordinary character.
Her paintings have a unique paradigm regardless of technique and color, just like enlightenment, and the relaxed mentality contains profound cultivation.
But since 1951, she has moved to the world of appreciating painting, enjoying flowers, pottery, and lacquerware. She poured all her soul into these highly stylistic works of art.
The ceramic magnets of Kutani are probably her favorites, and the delicate and even intricate patterns, bright yellow or rose red-based bright colors, are the most suitable for her appreciation and expression.
The Nine Valley Bottle is the love object of another of her teachers, Kobayashi Gujing. Kobayashi Koji, Yasuda Tatsuhiko and Maeda Green Estate, have been walking geese all their lives and promoting each other.
Tetsuzo Tanigawa, a famous contemporary Japanese philosopher and literary theorist, believes that Japanese painting after the Meiji era has the highest existence of Tomioka Tetsusai and Kobayashi Koji.
The paintings of the ancient path have strict lines, clear colors, clear artistic conception and vivid charm. After the war, the new painters were either under his door or influenced by it, and they could create their own styles, which was a blessing for the Japanese painting world.
Tanigawa Tetsuzo, because of his close personal relationship with Kobayashi and Yasuda, valued him as a person and admired his paintings even more. Kobayashi's works are difficult to see, so I would like to share them here:
The plum branches of the Japanese Lin sect should also have a great influence on Van Gogh.
Let's enjoy more beautiful paintings and see a better world together.
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