Tenmyouya hisashi biography definition
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One of the strangest and most interesting characteristics of the Japanese art world is its schizophrenia. To get a sense of this, simply visit the permanent collection of Tokyo's Museum of Modern Art (MOMAT). Here, on each of three floors, you will find 'Yohga' (Western style art) directly confronting 'Nihonga,' (Japanese style art).
While examples of Yohgaby Japanese artists often look derivative and unoriginal, the Nihongaworks suffer by being too self consciously Japanese. This schism, which has handicapped one of the most artistically talented nations in the World for over a hundred years, may now finally be coming to an end, as a new generation of artists rise up who are neither trying to emulate the West nor straining too hard to be 'Japanese.'
Perhaps one of the best examples of this new type of artist is Hisashi Tenmyouya, a still relatively young painter who has an exhibition of n
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What is “Neo-Nihonga” by Hisashi Tenmyouya?
Japanese artist Hisashi Tenmyouya calls his style “Neo-Nihonga.” (Ninohga means traditional Japanese painting.) What does he mean bygd that? Here’s some excerpts from his interview with a Japanese magazine Art Full.
Hisashi Tenmyouya designed an official art poster for the FIFA World Cup Germany 2006
at the request of the Japanese Football Association.
Hisashi Tenmyouya: influence
Q: You often use subjects such as Japanese mythological deities, Buddha statues and the Japanese civil war era (end of 16th ~early 17th century) as part of your “Neo-nihonga.” Where did you get the inspiration from?
Tenmyouya: inom came to know Kyosai Kawanabe (1831-1889) when inom was 21 years old. He was a prolific Nihonga artist who worked on a wide range of styles and subjects including authentic traditional Japanese painting (the Kano School), ukiyoe, Buddhism paining, satires and mythologies. His works were
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The Japanese neotraditional renewal of Tenmyouya Hisashi
Nihonga, classical Japanese painting, has received a boost with the work of this Tokyo artist who seeks to renew tradition without sacrificing it.
He was born in Tokyo in February 1966 and shortly after working as an art director for a record label, he realized that his world was undergoing renewal, but not music, but Nihonga (literally "Japanese-style paintings"). . The only thing missing was how, but really he just had to do the most logical thing: continue the legacy.
Tenmyouya Hisashi's own style
Tenmyouya Hisashi mixed all those techniques and models of imperial Japan - actually much older, but they were named in the Meiji era (1868 - 1912) - and the result is the 'Neo Nihonga', as he himself defined in 2001, an antithesis of that one, since it uses new materials such as acrylic paint, at the same time that it does not hide its origins in the Japanese classical tradition.
It was an alternative field that