著者

植野 健造

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美學 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.43, no.2, pp.59-69, 1992-09-30

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AOKI Shigeru's "Umi-no-sachi (Gifts of Sea)" (1904, Ishibashi Museum of Art) is regarded as one of the most important works not only in his artistic career but also in the history of modern western-style paintings in Japan. The unfinished aspect and the solemn atmosphere this work shows absorb our attention. In this article, the author discusses the problems in the following order ; analysis of the conditions and process in producing this work ; analysis of the concept of this work and lastly discussion of the meaning and place of this work in the history of western-style paintings of Meiji period. As a conclusion, the author proposes thus : this work was left unfinished intentionally by the artist for the purpose of heightening it's expressional effects, the core of the concept of this work was the artist's yearning for ancient worlds, this concept brought this work to show a solemn atomosphere and this work was placed at the important changing point from academically compositive paintings into expressionally imaginary paintings in the history of western-style paintings of Meiji period.