Takayama Tatsuo, Vie Intérieure, Tentation Visionnaire (Book)

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Takayama Tatsuo, Vie Intérieure, Tentation Visionnaire / Takayama Tatsuo, Inner Life, Visionary Temptation (Book) Paperback, Like New, 1995. Fine paper. Unnumbered pages (approximately 100 pages). Format 26 x 21,5 cm. Bilingual French/Japanese. Color and black and white illustrations. Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.

Works of the traditional Nihon-ga painter: Takayama Tatsuo.
Takayama Tatsuo. 1912-2007, is a Japanese painter of figures, landscapes, flowers, murals, traditional engraver and illustrator with Western tendencies of the 20th century.

Takayama Tatsuo enrolled in studies at the private workshop Konohana-sha, directed by Matsuoka Eikyû, a famous nihonga painter. Then, pursuing the project of exploring new forms of nihonga creations, he founded the group Rusôga-sha with Yamamoto Kyûjin and Sugiyama Yasushi.

Strongly influenced by the personality and work of Paul Gauguin, he produced works with simplified forms treated in flat tints of color. Then he asserted a keen interest in nature, and he began to paint landscapes that gave rise to a number of powerful works. In 1960, he made a major turning point and focused his work on the study of the human person, which remains today the central theme of a dense work, with a subtle and profound spirituality.

Far from being satisfied with the achievements of tradition, Takayama Tatsuo tirelessly pursued his quest for new directions for nihonga. These qualities make him, today, an eminent figure on the Japanese art scene.

The catalogue of this exhibition at the Espace des Arts, Mitsukoshi Etoile, from 05/12/95 to 03/02/96, is Takayama Tatsuo’s first personal exhibition abroad, it presents around fifty works created between the 80s and 95. These mature works will give the European public the opportunity to meet what represents the quintessence of this artist’s work.

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