著者

田野 葉月

出版者

日本美術教育学会

雑誌

美術教育 (ISSN:13434918)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2008, no.291, pp.24-29, 2008-03-31 (Released:2010-10-20)

参考文献数

22

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Nakai Sotaro (1879-1966) played an important role in the modernization of aesthetic education in the Japanesestyle painting circles of Kyoto. In the Meiji period, in the face of emerging Western influence, the artists of Japanese-style painting in Kyoto gradually realized that interiority should be important in modern Japanese art. The spread of this idea was promoted in 1907 by the first opening of Bunten, an annual nationwide art exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education. In response to this trend towards interiority, Nakai told his students that decorative elements, an important aspect of Japanese-style painting, did not only have exterior qualities, but could express new sensitivities to individuality and subjectivity. Tsuchida Bakusen, one of Nakai's students, understood this theory, but he felt conflicted because Japanese painting materials could not express interiority as easily as oil paintings. For Bakusen, the answer to this problem was for artists to project their own lives onto their works by focusing not only on techniques and materials but also on living itself. This philosophical innovation enabled Bakusen to create a new style of Japanese-style painting.