拍品專文
Born in Osaka, Yoshihara taught himself oil painting when he was in junior high school. He graduated from the Commercial School of Kansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya.
He won his first painting award in the 1934 Nikaten exhibition, and became a member of the Nika artists' association in the 1930s. He exhibited with this organization annually and, in its 1937 exhibition, his painting won its top award. In 1938 he became a member of the Nikaten and after the war he was active in another cultural group, the Nikakai. He was elected its director in 1961.
Yoshihara was a leader in the abstract painting movement in Japan. He was influenced by de Chirico, Miro, and Kandinsky, and he worked within the framework of the constructivist movement. In 1954 he founded the Gutai association, a group that countered the guild-type artists' societies that had become powerful in Japan. The Gutai, which disbanded upon Yoshihara's death in 1972, was formed of avant-garde artists active in the visual arts as well as in theatrical and outdoor performance pieces. Gutai painters relied on the physicality of paint itself to express emotion, rather than on representational subject matter. Yoshihara's work of the 1960s, including his well-known 'circle' series, derives from traditional single-stroke ink paintings of Zen priests. The painting offered here is similar in concept to this stylistic group.
One-man exhibitions of his work were held at the Asahi Kaikan Hall in Osaka in 1928, the Kinokuniya Art Gallery in Tokyo in 1937, and the Tokyo Gallery in 1967. His many group exhibitions include the Salon de Mai in Paris in 1952, the Carnegie International exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1952, 1958 and 1961, the 12th Premio Lissone in Italy in 1961, Contemporary Japanese Paintings and Sculpture sponsored by the American Federation of Arts 1963-64, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington in 1964, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1965.
Yoshihara won the Guggenheim International Award in 1964, the Nika Exhibition Award in 1937, 1939 and 1949, the Osaka Prefectural Art Award in 1953, and the Hyogo Prefecture Cultural Award in 1963. In 1967 he won the Grand Prize at the 9th Tokyo Biennial. His theatrical works include a commission for the curtain design for the Asahi Kaikan Hall in Osaka in 1950 and for Isen Kaiken Hall in 1953, designs for several performance companies, and a mural for the lobby of the Nishi Chorbori Housing Area.
Yoshihara's work is in the collections of the St. Louis University Museum, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, and the International Center of Aesthetic Research in Turin, Italy.
He won his first painting award in the 1934 Nikaten exhibition, and became a member of the Nika artists' association in the 1930s. He exhibited with this organization annually and, in its 1937 exhibition, his painting won its top award. In 1938 he became a member of the Nikaten and after the war he was active in another cultural group, the Nikakai. He was elected its director in 1961.
Yoshihara was a leader in the abstract painting movement in Japan. He was influenced by de Chirico, Miro, and Kandinsky, and he worked within the framework of the constructivist movement. In 1954 he founded the Gutai association, a group that countered the guild-type artists' societies that had become powerful in Japan. The Gutai, which disbanded upon Yoshihara's death in 1972, was formed of avant-garde artists active in the visual arts as well as in theatrical and outdoor performance pieces. Gutai painters relied on the physicality of paint itself to express emotion, rather than on representational subject matter. Yoshihara's work of the 1960s, including his well-known 'circle' series, derives from traditional single-stroke ink paintings of Zen priests. The painting offered here is similar in concept to this stylistic group.
One-man exhibitions of his work were held at the Asahi Kaikan Hall in Osaka in 1928, the Kinokuniya Art Gallery in Tokyo in 1937, and the Tokyo Gallery in 1967. His many group exhibitions include the Salon de Mai in Paris in 1952, the Carnegie International exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1952, 1958 and 1961, the 12th Premio Lissone in Italy in 1961, Contemporary Japanese Paintings and Sculpture sponsored by the American Federation of Arts 1963-64, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington in 1964, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1965.
Yoshihara won the Guggenheim International Award in 1964, the Nika Exhibition Award in 1937, 1939 and 1949, the Osaka Prefectural Art Award in 1953, and the Hyogo Prefecture Cultural Award in 1963. In 1967 he won the Grand Prize at the 9th Tokyo Biennial. His theatrical works include a commission for the curtain design for the Asahi Kaikan Hall in Osaka in 1950 and for Isen Kaiken Hall in 1953, designs for several performance companies, and a mural for the lobby of the Nishi Chorbori Housing Area.
Yoshihara's work is in the collections of the St. Louis University Museum, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, and the International Center of Aesthetic Research in Turin, Italy.