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| Artist: | Asano Takeji — 浅野竹二 |
| Title: | Itako (in Ibaraki) — 潮来（茨城） |
| Series: | Famous Places in the Nation — 全国名所絵 |
| Date of first edition?: | 1970 (circa) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 47080 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
浅野 竹二「自画自刻自摺木版画～潮来（茨城）」
○商品の説明： 京都の木版画家「浅野 竹二」の「自刻自摺木版画～潮来」です。作家は自画、自刻、自摺りに生涯こだわり、画壇とは一線を画し独自の世界を貫き名所絵や創作版画に取組んでいます。本作品も、素朴さの中に大胆で鮮やかな色彩で風景がいきいきと描かれています。アメリカの画家ベン・シャーンが絶賛したホルムや色彩は本作品でもいかんなく発揮されています。関西の木版画家とのイメージが強い作家ですが、昨年関東でも大々的な展覧会が開催され再評価の機運が高まっています。
●作家略歴～あさの たけじ（1900－1998）京都市立絵画専門学校で日本画を専攻。土田麦僊の率いる「山南塾」に入塾し、国画創作協会展に出品するなど日本画家として活躍。31才ころより木版画の制作をはじめ、小林清親の「東京名所」に触発され日本各地の名所や行事などを題材にした「名所絵版画シリーズ」を手がる。一方で自由な表現のもとに創作版画を制作。アメリカの具象画家ベン・シャーンは1960年に来日した折、浅野のアトリエを訪ね“タケジ・アサノは自由な想像力と非常にモダンなフォルムの大胆さを繊細な手技の巧みさに結びつけている。”と高く評価。自画,自刻,自摺りにこだわり、画壇から一線を画し独自の世界を貫いた浅野竹二が制作した創作版画は完全な抽象ではなく、鳥や虫や魚,馬,ラッパを吹く人物などを自在にデフォルメして多彩なイメージをつくりあげている。大胆なフォルムと色彩で構成されたユーモアあふれる画面に通う、ぬくもりとはつらつとした風刺精神、そして童心と詩情がうかがえる。
〇作品のサイズ：４０ｃｍ×２６.５ｃｍ ○台紙のサイズ：５０ｃｍ×３７.８ｃｍ
〇作品の状態：台紙・保護紙付、保管用袋入。台紙、保護紙には経年のヤケ少し有るも作品本体は大きな傷み無く良好。詳細は画像で確認願います。 |
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| Series Information: |
| This series name may in fact represent several "Here and There" series published by Takeji from 1966 to 1973, including "Here and There in the West", Shikoku, Joshin' Etsu, and Hokkaido. I have not seen a series album for any of these series, but I have seen prints held in large envelopes, suggesting they were distributed to "hanpu-kai" members (print-buying club). That would explain the lack of a series album. Hanpu-kai were still quite popular up to the 1970s at least. |
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| Artist Bio: |
Asano Takeji was born in Kyoto in 1900 and studied art in his youth. He graduated from the Kyoto City School of Fine Arts in 1919 and subsequently from the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting in 1923. One of his early teachers was the artist and printmaker Tsuchida Bakusen, with whom he studied Japanese-style painting. Asano helped to organise the Kyoto Creative Print Society (Kyoto Sosaku-Hanga Kyokai) in 1929.
In 1930, Asano contributed several designs to a series of prints titled "Creative Prints of Twelve Months in new Kyoto" (Sosaku-hanga shin Kyoto junikagetsu). These prints were published by Uchida. The other artists contributing to this series were Benji Asada and Tomikichiro Tokuriki, also members of the Kyoto Creative Print Society. Asano's work as a shin hanga print designer continued throughout the 1930's, but along the way he learned the skills of carving and printing. This enabled him to create his own self-carved and self-printed series of landscape prints titled "Noted Views in the Kyoto-Osaka Area" (Kinki meisho fukei) in 1947.
During the 1950's, Asano designed numerous landscape prints for the publisher Unsodo. These popular landscape prints are still being reprinted today. Original Unsodo prints have the Japanese date printed in the margin, while the modern reprints lack the date. Inspired by the encouragement of the Lithuanian-American social realism artist Ben Shahn, who once visited him in his studio and remained his friend, Asano established a freer artistic style often featuring animals in bold colours, later in his career. Asano continued to work as a printmaker during the 1970's and 80's. These late prints were simple and often humorous, signed with the letters T.A. and the date.
This information has been excerpted from various web sources and from Merritt and Yamada's Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975.
浅野 竹二（あさの たけじ、明治33年（1900年）10月24日-平成10年（1998年）2月10日）
京都の日本画家、版画家。京都市立絵画専門学校で日本画を専攻、途中油絵に手をそめましたが、再び日本画に復帰、土田麦僊の率いる「山南塾」に入塾し、国画創作協会展に出品するなど日本画家として活躍しました。 |
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