Sosuke Morimoto
What does the word "nude" mean?
The literary community considers it to be an indecent symbol, so it is decomposed layer by layer and packaged in the wind and snow, elegant and beautiful.
The film and television industry also regards it as an art that cannot be elegant, so they divide the art field and divide it.
Not to mention in society, it is unethical, filthy, worldly, and misguided, as if all the derogatory terms used on it are not excessive.
"It" given a negative meaning is like a rat crossing the street, everyone shouts and beats, young and old, across the ancient and modern.
And the development of modern Western painting art seems to have saved the precarious "it".
Western oil painting
In the world of painting, Morimoto Isaosuke is a special painter.
As we all know, artists always have some unclear little habits, stemming from their extreme cleanliness in their treatment of art, and throughout the ancient and modern circles, the painter's cleanliness is the heaviest.
However, a painter like Morimoto Kusuke, who has focused on a model all his life, is still rare.
He was a realist painter born in Japan.
He had never painted a human body before he met this satisfied model, and when his pen fell behind for her, he never painted for anyone else.
It sounds like a romantic story, but it reflects his life of art obsession.
Morimoto was born in Korea in 1937, when war raged around the world, but it did not hinder his artistic dreams.
A female model by Kusuke Morimoto
When he was 6 years old, his father brought him back to Japan.
Morimoto's father was Hitohira Morimoto, who was also a painter.
Like all parents in the world, he placed the hope of family inheritance on his eldest son, and it is gratifying that Morimoto Kusuke has an artistic talent beyond ordinary people.
Fortunately, he did not have a period of adolescent rebellion that was bound to run counter to the cultivation of his family, on the contrary, he loved the profession of painting more than the average person.
In Japan in the last century, various painting styles emerged in an endless stream, and the art model inherent in Japan fell under the input of Western styles like water pouring down.
Impressionist painting
The style of painting, once regarded as a treasure of national heritage, was twisted and changed under the impact of the new trend of thought, and at that time, everyone wanted to bite the new style of pie to show their modern talent that had become globalized.
Born in tradition and raised in a new wave, Morimoto Kusuke took a very different path - the realist school.
Speaking of this choice, we have to mention some works of art that the West is proud of.
What is "art", there is a comment that has been praised by the top to break the truth:
What normal people can't understand is art.
What artists can't understand is even more a treasure.
Picasso's unique style of painting
Of course, the truth of the truth, for tens of hundreds of years, there is still no concept that can be written into the textbook, so thousands of people, thousands of faces, beautiful, ugly, eye-catching, hot-eyed, developed to modern times, "strange" has occupied the mainstream.
Of course, we are not critical of all painters, and every leader who pioneered the era deserves to be respected.
What we criticize is what comes with it—some attempts in the name of art are doing sensationalism.
More importantly, with the rise in the probability of this kind of thing, there are many people who succeed through opportunism.
Since the dazzling color stew can become the mainstream, why should people who paint in a down-to-earth manner spend the rest of their lives in the studio that does not see the light of day?
Masterpieces
As the saying goes: give it a beating, the bike becomes a motorcycle; a gamble, the motorcycle becomes a jeep.
Therefore, it is conceivable that the realist school of painting is not popular in the painting world.
Especially in modern times, electronic imaging technology has developed more and more rapidly, making realism a chicken rib for a long time.
Morimoto's choice is incomprehensible even today.
But the painter is clearly on a path that does not see the future, sticking to his dreams, his creations.
And even more surprising stories lie ahead.
What is the first lesson for realist painters to learn?
Realistic.
Still
Still life realism, landscape realism, character realism, even if you are not engaged in this industry, this is also a well-known common sense.
Komori Motonaksuke's choice was another surprise.
He rejected frequent paintings of the human body, and in his early paintings, 99% of the space was still life.
Apparently, the "deviant" that the painter did not use as a child gradually became apparent as he grew up.
And his reasons for refusing were pure.
The models are not beautiful enough.
At that time, everyone did not understand what he meant by "not beautiful enough."
Character realism, emphasis on "realism", characters can only be counted as secondary, but it is obvious that his requirements for "people" are more demanding.
Sosuke Morimoto's Still Lifes Bureau
He is actually a rather talented painter, at the age of 21 he enrolled in the painting department of Tokyo University of the Arts, and at the age of 24, he went to Tokyo University of the Arts as a teaching assistant, during which he won numerous awards, and his name became famous in the world of realistic painting.
But he faces a conundrum at any time.
At that time, the world art of that period showed a grand situation of a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending, but it also exposed many deficiencies.
For example, the classification of educational resources is confused, the theoretical resources are discarded, and the disadvantages of Morimoto's realistic painting school being subordinate to impressionism and abstraction.
With limited access to resources and the fact that Morimoto himself was not keen on body painting, he was completely on a path full of fog.
Still life part of Mori Moton Kusuke
If you really go on like this, there is nothing wrong with it.
He can also rely on his transcendent qualifications to mix in the Japanese painting circle, anyway, he is talented, and he is afraid of the development of the times.
But in this way, he also lost the key to open the door of art.
Such a person, even in the painting world, may be regarded as a symbol of mediocrity, and for the painter, if he does not move forward, he symbolizes regression.
In the face of this, he just silently packed his bags.
In the 1970s, hoping for a breakthrough, he traveled to France, a place known to the world as the land of romance, where countless classic realist paintings were born.
Part of the Mona Lisa, painted by the Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci, is now in the collection of the Louvre museum in France
There, Morimoto's painting skills were enhanced, and most importantly, his style embraced and carried the essence of French painters and French painting.
Later, Morimoto Wastrosuke was once known as the "Angres of the East", which was obviously the biggest praise for his trip to France.
Returning to Japan, Morimoto Kusuke completed his breakthrough, but did not break the world's barriers to the art of realism, and in the year-long wait, he met a woman.
He was 42 years old, and for a man, it was the year of the fight, and for him, twenty years of stubbornness had made him lose the best time to rise to fame.
Fortunately, it's not too late.
He once said that he only focused on "beautiful things", and after more than 40 years, he finally found his most suitable model.
Female model painted by Kusuke Morimoto
Her name has been lost in countless beautiful, warm but famous paintings, some say she is Japanese, some say her name is like Chinese, traced back to her roots, and painstakingly invented a story for her.
The information is chaotic, and the only thing to trust is the painting.
Among the countless complicated stories, the only thing recognized by everyone is that she is indeed a beauty, and even various angles and postures cannot hide her beauty.
Belonging to oriental women, petite and slender bone phase, beautiful and exquisite face, apricot eyes up, cherry lips slightly ticked, even in laughter, it is also a sense of unstained worldly coldness, obviously sweet looks, but it emits a sense of world-weariness.
Morimoto's pursuit of beauty is almost harsh, but this woman has become his life's model, and you can imagine her beauty.
This is also an identity that many people envy.
He did fulfill what he called "painting only beautiful things."
Therefore, even if you don't know the behind-the-scenes story, in his paintings, you can also glimpse how strict the requirements for models are.
Jewelry, clothing accessories, shoes and hats, and posture are all carefully directed and required.
Traditional costumes, Western-style dresses, pearl gemstones, scene construction, and the beauty of the finished paintings are breathtaking, and some people even suspect that The paintings in Morimoto's paintings are tens of thousands of times more beautiful than the real scenes.
In fact, the totality of his paintings will give people a warm and beautiful feeling more than reality, derived from his unique color grading style.
Although he has been praised by countless people as the "Ingres of the East", it is clear that unlike Ingres's clear composition and colorful coloring, he pursues paintings with a softer and more beautiful atmosphere.
It's like giving a light brown soft light to a finished photo.
Including his creation of a large number of nude style paintings, there is no escape from this tone.
How to interpret a nude painting warmly and beautifully?
This has been an insoluble problem for countless painters, and nude painting was also seen as a symbol of filth and desire when it first emerged.
However, with the development of the times, this art form has gradually come to the eyes of the general public.
But after all, its special style limited the good timing of its transformation, so for a long time, Realist painters could not classify it as a category of traditional art.
For Morimoto, this doesn't seem to be an insoluble problem.
Part of Ingres's paintings
Although he came into contact with realistic painting very early, it was after the age of 40 that he really began to produce realistic paintings of figures.
In his previous artistic career, he had already formed his own painting style, both skilled and color grading, coupled with his pursuit of "beauty", which allowed him to naturally form a unique style belonging to Morimoto Kusuke in this type of painting.
In addition to continuing his tradition of "softening light" for his paintings, he also used a large number of external elements to outline the picture - a light but very existential arrangement, a bright fabric that is close to the extreme, and the viewing of refracting light, furniture and silk that shines with gorgeous light.
Sosuke Morimoto Art And Works Department
Then there is the beautiful face and graceful posture of the model.
Unlike the bold and vivid color schemes and beautiful and open models of traditional paintings, the most conspicuous of Morimoto's nude paintings is "subtle".
Whether it is the obstruction of traditional costumes full of oriental meaning, or the shyness of the models, all of them are deeply fascinating.
Some people even forget that it is a painting.
This is the charm of realistic paintings, and it is also the reward of Morimoto's uninterrupted pursuit of real beauty for decades.
More well-known is the same model he has been modeling for decades.
Sosuke Morimoto's underjomided special
The world in the eyes of the painter is undoubtedly colorful, so it is necessary to always look for inspiration and not to be in a corner.
The boredom of painting only one person in a lifetime, not stingy with leonardo da Vinci's difficulty in drawing eggs and maintaining interest.
Some people say that in the cooperation day after day, year after year, the two people have a good relationship and a good relationship, and Morimoto Kusasuke only paints the affection of one person in his life, which belongs only to his wife.
Regardless of whether things are true or not, how big is the concept of only one person in one person's life? Besides, he was also an artist.
There are not many works that have been handed down by Mori Motoyasu, but each one is a fine product, and the most surprising thing is that the appearance and form of the woman in the painting are the same as in the beginning.
Time flies, people's life, old age, illness and death, and the five decays of heaven and man are all irrevocable changes, and the woman in the painting is always beautiful, but the girl who is a model can certainly not be young forever.
Aside from the quest for beauty, is there anything else worthy of immersion in this painter?
We have to admit that the success of Morimoto Kusuke has a lot to do with Japanese society.
Among all his paintings, the most popular is undoubtedly the realistic figure painting.
There is no doubt that the Japanese painting industry is developed, and the painters who can break through in it are all the leaders in the industry, and the public's pursuit of painting art can be ranked first even in the world.
People's pursuit of his paintings is not a fascination with the beauty of the women in the paintings.
With the brush in his hand, he created a beautiful world for people, a beautiful woman.
In the Japanese realist school, Morimoto's name is undoubtedly loud, and even today, his paintings have been called "warm" by countless people.
Contrasting with Japan's unique anime lovers is the fanatical pursuit of two-dimensional creation by countless men, which in this regard is very different from the current situation of strong women and weak men in most countries.
In a way, Kusuke Morimoto's realistic paintings have been pushed to the highest altar in Japan, and a large number of male fans have contributed to it.
Of course, among Morimoto's fans, there are also a large number of women who also appreciate his warm and beautiful paintings.
Unfortunately, there is no end to innovation, but there are limits to creation.
art gallery
In 2015, at the age of 78, Kusosuke Morimoto died, the demise of a realist painter, a loss to the entire art world.
On the other hand, his paintings are also more precious.
His remaining paintings are mainly treasured in the art museum in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, and are open from time to time for viewing.
Because of his outstanding achievements in painting and his lofty status in the art world, many people are willing to take time out of their precious time to participate in his exhibitions. And praise on social platforms:
"I used to learn about painting at the Morimoto Kusuke Exhibition held in Tokyo."
"I went to the art museum and saw the collection of Morimoto, a representative figure of Japanese realistic painting, and was amazed at the fact that even a hair was depicted with such a delicate female figure!"
"I saw Mr. Kusosuke Morimoto's painting at the art museum, fell in love with his painting at first sight, and went to an art museum where the place name was completely unfamiliar."
In this increasingly flashy era, real works of art deserve to be remembered and even more worthy of support.
Many people have a fondness for Morimoto's paintings, but they know little about this person.
Even in some places, it is difficult to find a single word belonging to this painter, and when asked about "Morimoto Kusuke", occasionally someone will respond lightly:
"Oh, he, a true painter who paints quietly."
This is the best evaluation of him.
Mori Moton Kusuke lives in the colorful past, the painter lives in people's hearts, and the beautiful woman remains in reality forever, her eyebrows as old as ever, and her smile is longing.