Additional information
| Artist | Kobayashi |
|---|---|
| Country | Japanese |
ArtistKobayashi, Tetsuo
Artist Years1927-1997
Artist NationalityJapanese
TitleTwo Nudes
Yearca. 1970
MediumPainting > Oil
DimensionsCanvas: 19.5 X 15.5 inches
Description
Oil on canvas, signed in Kanji lower right.
Accession NumberRC1994
NotesA Western-style painter. Standing member of the Issuikai group. Born in February 1927 in Ogi, Sado-gun, Niigata Prefecture, where his father Denichi worked as a teacher.
He moved to his father's hometown of Aikawa and graduated from Aikawa Junior High School under the old system. His mother was born in Toji. He aspired to be a painter, and in 1952 exhibited a pastel painting of a nude woman at the Nitten, (Nihon bijutsu tenrankai), a Japanese art exhibition established in 1907, and was selected for the first time.
He later joined the Issuikai Group, where he continued to paint oil paintings, and won the 10th Issuikai Exhibition Commemorative Exhibition Award in 1965, and the Excellence Award the following year. This same year he held his first solo exhibition at Nichido Gallery (Tokyo).
He traveled to Europe in 1971, spending much of time in Montmartre, and returned to Japan the following year, where he held exhibitions of his works during his stay in Europe at Nichido Gallery's Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya branches.
This year he formed the Contemporary Pastel Artists Association Exhibition with volunteers. During this time, he was in charge of painting instruction for NHK dramas such as "Tensai Ga no Onna" and "Kazoku no Onna", and in 1986 he won the grand prize at the Japan-Brazil Award Exhibition. In 1989, he founded the Gendai Pastel Association, an open recruitment organization, and held its first exhibition.
Kobayashi traveled repeatedly to India where he created many works rich in religious colors, drawing women in ethnic costumes and combinations of women's bodies using a variety of colors on the theme of samsara (reincarnation), the central concept in Indian thought.
One of his masterpieces, "Sansara A" (No. 100), was donated to the Sado Museum, where it is on permanent display.
Tetsuo Kobayashi died in January 1997 at the age of 69 at a hospital in Fujisawa City.