Shunyo-kai art society (Japanese: 春陽会, romanized: Shun'yōkai, lit. 'Spring Sun Society'),[1] is a Japanese art society founded in 1922 by the Western-style (yōga) artists from the painting department of Nihon Bijutsuin (English: Japan Visual Arts Academy).[2] As of 2021, they have some 200 members. They annually hold a large scale exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.[3]
History
editThe Shunyo-kai art society started in 1922, after a group of Nihon Bijutsuin art students rebelled against the lessons and wanted to focus on the Western-style (yōga).[4] It emerged as the third yōga art society, and competed against the Teikoku Bijutsuin (the Imperial Fine Arts Academy), and the Nika Association.[4] The founding group members from Nihon Bijutsuin include Gen’ichirō Adachi, Noboru Hasegawa, Yamamoto Kanae, Misai Kosugi, Hakuyō Kurata, Morita Tsunetomo, and Ryūzaburō Umehara;[4] and the founding guest members include Ishii Tsuruzō, Keishi Imazeki, Ryūsei Kishida, Shōhachi Kimura, Sadao Tsubaki, Kazumasa Nakagawa, Shōzō Yamazaki, and Tetsugorō Yorozu.[4]
See also
edit- List of Yōga painters
- Nihonga, a traditional Japanese art movement
References
edit- ^ Fogel, Joshua A. (2012). Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art. University of California Press. p. 191. ISBN 978-0-520-28984-0.
- ^ Far East Year Book. Far East Year Book, Incorporated. 1941. p. 162.
- ^ Morishita, Masaaki (2016-03-23). The Empty Museum: Western Cultures and the Artistic Field in Modern Japan. Routledge. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-317-03417-9.
- ^ a b c d "Artists of Shunyo-kai: Celebrating Its 100th Anniversary". Tokyo Station. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
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