<Research Paper> A Study on Mokuma Kikuhata's "Spring Breeze" "A Song for Spring" Series

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  • <論文> 菊畑茂久馬<春風><春の唄>シリーズについての一考察
  • 菊畑茂久馬〈春風〉〈春の唄〉シリーズについての一考察
  • キクバタケモキュウバ 〈 シュンプウ 〉 〈 ハル ノ ウタ 〉 シリーズ ニ ツイテ ノ イチ コウサツ

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Mokuma Kikuhata (born in 1935) is known as one of the painters who were at the forefront of Japanese postwar art. In 1950's, Kikuhata belonged to Group Kyushu, which conducted anti-art movements, and hepublished local and folk-like works using asphalt and cement. He says, "In my activities of expression, It is important to struggle between objects and pictorial representations." And he has always been thinking about what pictures are, through the experience;creating objects or tableaus, consideration of war paintings, and adoring Sakube Yamamoto(1892-1984), known as a painter recording coal mines.Both "Spring Breeze" series, published at the retrospective exhibition "Postwar/Paintings" in 2011, and "A Song for Spring" series, his latest work in 2015, show the theme "lyricism",unable to be seen before, and they use light colors and planarity of paintings, emphasized with their flat picture surfaces. In this paper, as a method for the consideration of how Kikuhata’s paintings will change in the future the author makes a study in a personal view. To reveal differences between "Spring Breeze" in 2011 and "A Song for Spring" in 2015, I also consider, with his largetableaus, rough sketches and drawings for reference, how he has reached the both series and, at the same time, specify how Kikuhata or others have considered the both two series so far.

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  • 芸術学研究

    芸術学研究 22 51-60, 2017-12

    Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba

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