From Hakubakai to Kofukai : Aspects of Japanese Oil Painting (Tokyo Station Gallery)

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The Tokyo Station last year , was renewed , when it comes to the holidays , many people rushed as ever , and have a photo taken in front of the new station building.

Is in the Tokyo Station , Tokyo Station Gallery , the exhibition on the theme of Kofu Association which is an organization typical of Western image of Japan was held.

Kuroda Seiki , by Kume Keiichiro et al led the foreign film art world of the Meiji , Hakuba Association was formed in 1896 , he descended from the French Impressionists , and allowed to spread to Japan techniques to express the feeling of air and light.

Kuroda et al. Thought in 1907 , Bunten is started , that it has completed its role broke up the white horse meetings , but disciples of Kuroda , Miyake Katsumi , Nakazawa Hiromitsu , Yamamoto forest Koresuke , Kobayashi Shokichi , Okano Sakae , apart from the Bunten , as the successor organization of Hakuba meeting , Sugiura jade and designer Atomi Tai , formed the Kofu meeting in 1912.

This Kofu-kai has been working as a gateway to success still oil painter of our young , they will hold a 100th anniversary exhibition this time.

In this exhibition, it was content to the effect The exhibition of painters involved in Kofu meeting, the work of young, that, an overview of the history more than 100 years of such Kofu meeting.

Writer of painter and later well-known to the public was exhibited in the very beginning, Kuroda Seiki, Kume Keiichiro, and Fujishima Takeji, was greater painters who do not know much.

At best, it was enough to have known the name Sugiura jade, Torajiro Kojima, Uchida Iwao, Genichiro Inokuma, Koiso Ryohei, Suda Kokuta per.

Work when so many young, absolutely, work that is similar to the style of painting painter had learned at that time there were many. Obviously, I have to imitate the Barbizon School, Monet, Cezanne, Renoir, Van Gogh, and Giacometti.

At the end of the hall, in the center of Kofu and Hakuba Board meeting, related the history of foreign film organizations in Japan were on display at the panel.

Than any paintings that were on display in this exhibition, this panel was interesting.

More than anything, it is surprising to the large number of organizations. Many organizations, was born about this, or disappear, it would probably be was carried out by division, why, and be appalled at.

Looking not a painter, from human outsider, I wanted to say this myself.

"Why is not enough only to paint something ?"