Uemura Shoen collection book

Product Description

The Complete Story of Uemura Shoen, the Greatest of Modern Women Painters

Uemura Shoen is one of the leading female painters of the modern Kyoto art world and is also known as the "master of beauty painting." This definitive edition features 110 works, from her earliest paintings, including the overwhelmingly popular "Hibiki" (Fire), "Prelude Dance," and other representative works, to the first public showing of "Sei Shonagon," and her last work, "Early Summer Evening." The five chapters introduce the development of Shoen's art as the "leading authority on beauty painting," whose footsteps led directly to the establishment of the art of bijinga.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: 1887-1900 Training: The Teachings of Two Masters

Chapter 2: 1900-1912 Departure: Sketching and the Search for Old Paintings

Chapter 3: 1913-1926 Searching: From the Trends of the Painting World to the Classics of Tradition

Chapter 4: 1927-1938 Establishment: Shoen Style Beauty Paintings

Chapter 5: 1939-1949 Maturity: The State of the Painting Triad

Contributions

Setsuko Shinoda, Konasako Matsui, Miwa Yanagi