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I
started learning the oil painting in high school.
First, I began with copying the paintings I liked,
then I threw myself into studying the European masters
such as Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Rafael, Cezanne,
Matisse and Bonnard, to name just a few of them.
This experience was been useful in learning to meld
Eastern and Western beauty.
I also am as greatly interested in literature as
I am in paintings, and have some familiarity with
classic literature such as "Genji Monogatari"
(The Tale of Genji), "Man'yo-shu" (Collection
of Ten Thousand Leaves), and classical Japanese
poems. Literature alone was not enough for me and
I began to enjoy seeing "Yamato-e" (classical
Japanese painting) of the picture scroll of "Genji
Monogatari" and more, and let my heart beat
fast while I dreamed of the nobleness and romance
of the classic aristocratic culture.
After I entered the university, I still liked Renaissance
art and the Impressionist style, but also my love
for Yamato-e kept growing at the same time. In the
end, I choose as my road contemporary Yamato-e style
paintings in oil. But then I learned the beauty
of paints made from rock paints, and was totally
entranced with the beautiful gold, silver, and unglazed
earthenware and abandoned expressing Yamato-e in
oils.
I studied alone the fundamentals of Japanese paintings.
I spend my youthful days in the world of Yamato-e,
and try to create Yamato-e that express the Yamato-e
that still lives in contemporary culture.
I would like to be an artist who can provide vitality
and happiness, dreams and hope to the people who
see my paintings, and that is my dream and hope. |
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by Nansei Sakagami
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