wocomoCULTURE | The Path by Kaii Higashiyama: one of Japan's preeminent postwar painters | Artworks Explained @wocomoCULTURE | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
"The Path" is the name of this painting and it depicts nothing more than a simple sandy path leading straight ahead through a hilly landscape. Just below the horizon, it loses itself at the right edge of the picture: an almost abstract composition. What at first looks like a smooth surface is of extremely rich painting. It is a painting that achieves a high degree of reality without applying the style of illusion realism, not even impressionism.
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Higashiyama Kaii (Japanese 東山 魁夷; 1908-1999) was an internationally renowned Japanese landscape painter in the Nihonga style. Many of his works can be seen in the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo as well as in Nagano. After childhood and youth in Kōbe, he completed his studies in Japanese painting at the Tōkyō School of Art, later the Tōkyō School of Art, in 1931. From 1933 to 1935, Kaii studied art history at the University of Berlin and frequently visited the surrounding area to paint the landscape. Higashimaya was impressed by German Romanticism and introduced Caspar David Friedrich to Japan.
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The Masterworks series is a treasure trove of art. Each ten-minute program focuses on an individual painting, with a rich visual survey accompanied by an authoritative voice-over commentary. The selection of works, from galleries on both sides of the Atlantic, covers a broad spectrum of art from the earliest European masterpieces to contemporary works, introducing the unfamiliar and rediscovering the well-loved.
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"The Path" is the name of this painting and it depicts nothing more than a simple sandy path leading straight ahead through a hilly landscape. Just below the horizon, it loses itself at the right edge of the picture: an almost abstract composition. What at first looks like a smooth surface is of extremely rich painting. It is a painting that achieves a high degree of reality without applying the style of illusion realism, not even impressionism.
➡️ Discover more masterworks: bit.ly/Masterworks-Explained
Higashiyama Kaii (Japanese 東山 魁夷; 1908-1999) was an internationally renowned Japanese landscape painter in the Nihonga style. Many of his works can be seen in the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo as well as in Nagano. After childhood and youth in Kōbe, he completed his studies in Japanese painting at the Tōkyō School of Art, later the Tōkyō School of Art, in 1931. From 1933 to 1935, Kaii studied art history at the University of Berlin and frequently visited the surrounding area to paint the landscape. Higashimaya was impressed by German Romanticism and introduced Caspar David Friedrich to Japan.
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The Masterworks series is a treasure trove of art. Each ten-minute program focuses on an individual painting, with a rich visual survey accompanied by an authoritative voice-over commentary. The selection of works, from galleries on both sides of the Atlantic, covers a broad spectrum of art from the earliest European masterpieces to contemporary works, introducing the unfamiliar and rediscovering the well-loved.
© Licensed by Arthaus Musik
