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美術館 > ENGLISH > EXHIBITION > Temporary Exhibitions > 1990-1999 > Yanagihara Yoshitatsu

Yanagihara Yoshitatsu

11 May - 16 June 1996

 

Hours: 9:30a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Entry is permitted thirty minutes before the galleries are closed.
Closed: Closed on Mondays

 

Admission: charged

 

Yoshitatsu Yanagihara enjoys high critical esteem as one of the artists who have built unique worlds of their own in the field of figurative sculpture in the post-World War II period in Japan - the field which has drawn much from modern French sculpture .

 

Yanagihara was born in Kobe in 1910. Although he studied Japanese-Style painting for a while in Kyoto, he switched to sculpture when he saw photographs of the works of Rodin and Bourdelle. After graduating from the sculpture course at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (currently, the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music) Yanagihara showed his works with the Kokugakai group in the 1930s. In 1939, he participated in the formation of the sculpture section of the Shinseisakuha Kyokai group. Following a hiatus in the war years, Yanagihara started showing his works again as from 1946, right after the war. Unfortunately, however, he lost almost all his finished works in a fire in the same year.

 

In 1951, the Salon de Mai exhibition was held in Tokyo and Yanagihara’s artistic career changed drastically because of it. He was so powerfully moved by the modern French sculptures put on display at the exhibition that Yamagihara felt it imperative to go to Paris to seriously re-study the art of sculpture and make a fresh start as a sculptor. He stayed in Paris for nearly four years. Upon his return to Japan, Yanagihara demonstrated new possibilities for figurative sculpture in Japan via exhibitions of his works done in Paris, including Red-haired Woman and Negresse featuring bold deformation and modeling techniques.

 

Ever since, Yamagihara has unwaveringly devoted himself to the creation of highly important works characterized by tension-filled modeling and the spirit of humanistic inquiry into the true essence of nature and life - the works centering around female figures represented by Song of the Dog and the Milestone series works using crows and pigeons as motifs. Yanagihara’s artistic credo has remained unchanged to this day when he is over 80 years old.

 

This exhibition attempts to follow, via 75 representative works, including some of the earliest and the latest efforts, 53 drawings and eight albums of drawings, the development process of Yanaagihara’s art and tries to locate the true meaning of his works in the post-war world of figurative sculpture in Japan.

 

Before closing, we would like to express our sincerest gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Yanagihara for their immense cooperation to the present exhibition. Our heart-felt thanks also go to all the museum and collectors who have been gracious enough to lend us their precious possessions and to all those who have kindly helped us in our research and documentation works. We are also deeply indebted to Kao Corporation and other corporations for their unstinted support.

Catalogue

Catalogue

YANAGIHARA Yoshitatsu Memorial Gallery (since the 1st November, 2003)

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