We would like to introduce the titles of graduation research (theses) by people who graduated from the art history field (including the former art studies department) of the University of Tsukuba College of Art.
2024
Kunitaro Suda and Wartime Realism: From "Walking Eagle" to "Send-off for Students Heading to War"
The dead and mythological images in the white lekythos
A Study of Charles Ricketts: Focusing on the Themes of "Salome" and "Don Juan"
2023
Study of Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - Centered on "Marie Antoinette in a Chemise Dress" -
Max Ernst's Attempt at Automatism
A Study of Honda Kinkichirō: A Pioneer of Manga - Focusing on "Dandan Chinbun" and "Kibo Dango"
Transitional elements from the Carolingian to the Ottonian dynasty in the Codex Gero
2022
The political character of Simone Martini's ``Maesta'': A study of the iconography and the client
About JE Millais ``Afternoon Tea (Gossip)'' - On the image of girls in fancy dress in the Victorian era -
Research on Roy Kiyooka: Focusing on the 1970 Japan World's Fair and artistic practice at StoneDGloves
About Kogyo Tsukioka's life and works - Focusing on Noh paintings -
Thoughts on Rembrandt's "Three Trees" - 17th century Dutch landscape prints and Italy
2021
Landscape expressions found in “Yamakoshi Amida-zu” - Focusing on the Zenrinji version
Depiction of Buddhist art in Yasunari Kawabata's Maihime
On the "simplicity" in Toyoshiro Fukuda's artistic philosophy: Regarding the expression of the climate, including "Returning to Hometown" and "Snow Country"
Background to the production of Taro Okamoto's Myth of Tomorrow and its installation in public spaces
Representation of the dead in ancient Greek white lekythos: Consideration based on examples of “graveside drawings”
2020
“Carp” in Shiko Munakata’s works: Regarding Kanoko Okamoto’s short story “Koiyu”
On the representation of female homosexuality in modern paintings: Starting from Courbet's "Sleep"
Development of the Tale of the Heike fan map - Focusing on books from Umi no Mieru Mori Art Museum
Treasure investigation and cultural property protection during the Meiji period
About music painting themes at the Japan Art Institute
2019
Creation of Kurt Schwitters' "Early Merz Paintings" - Fragmentation and combination of images in examples from 1917 to 1920
Studying Western-style paintings in the Momoyama period - Focusing on the "Three Saints" -
Representation of female images and teeth in Japanese commercial art
Art strategy in the Toyotomi family: Using the depiction of Kobatayama Fushimi Castle as an example
2018
Research by Fumio Yamana - 1950s Metropolitan Theater Pamphlet Design
Adaptation and originality seen in Roman copies - Focusing on the works of Polykleitos
Landscape expression in early Dutch paintings: Focusing on Hieronymus Bosch's ``The Garden of Earthly Delights''
On Hiroshige Utagawa's reception of Rinpa - Focusing on "Ryakuga Korinfu Rissai Hyakuzu" -
2017
About the background of the construction of the Kobo Daishi statue - Focusing on the Mannichi Daishi statue at Kongobuji Temple, Koyasan -
Regarding the expression of "Negroid" (black race) in ancient Greek art - "Other" seen in the head base -
2016
Consideration of international contemporaneity in postwar art
Ryuchikai and art administration in the early Meiji period
A study on the flying sky of the East Tower of Yakushiji Temple
About Ryuko Kawabata's war paintings
Research on Fernand Khnopf - Focusing on his relationship with Whistler -
About the construction background of the Kumano Hayatama Taisha statue
2015
Study of chrysanthemum patterns in Goryeo inlaid celadon
Consideration of the iconography of Salome at the turn of the century: Focusing on Gustav Klimt's Judith II
Research on Pieter Brueghel - Focusing on <<The Fall of Icarus>>
Critios and Nesiotes: The establishment of a strict style and two advanced sculptors
On the stylistic influence of Kikuchi Yosai's ``Zenken Kojitsu'' on modern bijin-ga
Background to the production of Sotatsu's Bugaku Picture Byobu - From the reception of Bugaku Pictures in the early modern period -
2014
Reception of Song Dynasty style in Kamakura - Focusing on the seated statue of Hatsueo at Ennoji Temple in Kanagawa -
Illustrated Karatsu from the end of Momoyama to the early Edo period
2013
Takafumi Kiyomiya as a woodblock print artist
Ministry of Commerce and Industry Crafts Guidance Center and Export Crafts
Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring - 17th century Dutch painting and oriental taste
Saga book in the early Keicho era
2012
About “Totalitarian Art” by Igor Golomshtok
A study on the semantic correlation between story scenes and border decorations in “The Bayeux Tapestry”
2011
Reconsidering the Rococo Revival: Focusing on the Goncourt brothers and the reappraisal of Rococo art by the Central Union of Decorative Arts
Koide Narashige and Kansai in the 1920s
The influence of Egyptian art during the period of the establishment of ancient Greek and Archaic statues: Research on art and the view of life and death in ancient times.
Henri Matisse's spatial decoration: The process of modeling and thinking through stage art
Reception of lithographs in the Meiji period - Focusing on cigarette advertisements and Mitsukoshi kimono store posters
2010
Self-portraits in modern Japanese Western paintings: Focusing on Kaita Murayama
War art in the early XNUMXs ─Focusing on the creative print magazines ``Shiro to Kuro'' and ``Han Geijutsu''─
2009
Kiyokata Kaburagi’s painting career: Through the interpretation of “Young Fish”
About Soga Shohaku's ``Gunsen Zu Byobu''
2008
Research on the Wooden Buddha - Focusing on the relationship between the formation of the Smiling Buddha and the Daikokuten statue
About Jan van Eyck's Saint Barbara
Athena, the goddess of victory - A study on the significance of Athena's intervention in the iconography of "Shogi"
Export of crafts in the Meiji period
2007
Africanness in Transition: Pre-colonial West African Ivories and the 'Curious' Others
Thoughts on Kiitsu Suzuki's "Shizu no Zu"
"Publishing Creation" by Koshiro Onchi - Focusing on the relationship between poetry collections and photography -
About the female nude in modern Japanese photography - From the era of emerging photography to avant-garde photography -
Thoughts on Yoshimatsu Goseda’s “Statue of Morinari Hosokawa”
A study on the statue of the memorial service at Kumooka Cave
Toru Iwamura's art criticism - From the aspect of the reception of John Ruskin in Japan -
Consideration of the special characteristics of Shaanbei image stones in the Han Dynasty image stones
Consideration of the interior decoration of Oljeitu Mausoleum
2006
Thoughts on Han van Meegeren's Vermeer forgery
About Dainichi Nyorai worship in Boso - Focusing on the seated statue of Dainichi Nyorai at Myorakuji Temple -
A study on Ito Jakuchu's "Parrot" - Possibility of interpretation as a portrait -
Okakura Tenshin and Japanese Art History
A study on Hieronymus Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" - Focusing on the buildings on the left wing and center panel -
2005
Innovation in contemporary puppetry - the relationship between puppeteers and puppets at the theater company DRAK
Fumio Yamana's image of women - Focusing on the Shiseido era -
Santokyoden and Utagawa Kuniyoshi - Focusing on different paintings
2004
Consideration of postwar housing history and minimum housing
Consideration of Ise Ondo - Focusing on the relationship between people and shrines -
About Junichi Nakahara - Focusing on cover illustrations of girls' and women's magazines -
Thoughts on Papa Tarahumara - About Japanese performing arts since 1960 -
2003
Thoughts on “Hitotsuie” - Focusing on Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s votive tablet “Hitotsuie no Zu”
The influence of traditional Japanese craft designs on modern Western art - Focusing on "The Studio"
Thoughts on Fujin
Thoughts on outsider art
Philosophy and current status of local government-run art museums - Focusing on Art Tower Mito -
2002
About art educational institutions in the early Showa period
About Isamu Noguchi - Focusing on playgrounds -
Thoughts on Yoko Ono's early works
Tang Sancai and Tang Tombs - Focusing on Shaanxi and Henan Provinces -
About Qinghua porcelain in Jingdezhen kilns during the Yuan Dynasty
About art museum education in the United States - Focusing on the Metropolitan Museum of Art -
2001
Fusion of light and darkness seen in Redon's Fontfroward Monastery mural "Day" and "Night"
Proletarian art movement and its surroundings
Development of Nirvana art in Central Asia
M. C.Escher: Thoughts on the “Mysterious World”
About Shiriagari Kotobuki - Focusing on “Yajikita in DEEP”
1999
Colonial art in Latin America - Focusing on Christian architectural decoration -
Shimanarien “Kara no Kaoru” -Japanese version of the femme fatale image as a modern expression in modern beauty paintings-
About the picture book “Actor Summer Fuji”
A study of the image of the Queen Mother of the West depicted on image stone during the Chinese Han Dynasty
Research on ≪Haikuni Founding Picture Scroll≫
1998
Research on media art - History of the Fukui Biennale -
Regarding the relationship between the Bishamonten statue and the Tamuramaro legend in the Tohoku Areas of study
Egon Schiele research: About the work <<Family>>
Research on Shunsuke Matsumoto - Focusing on <<Introduction>>
Research on the Xi Wei Grottoes in Mujishan Grottoes
Cultural economics of art
Ryusei Kishida research
Regarding expression regulations for works of art
About Toyokuni Utagawa's actor Ōkubie
1997
The discourse of “decisive moment”: Regarding the reception of Cartier-Bresson in the postwar Japanese photography world.
Research on Ford Maddox Brown: Reconsidering his relationship with the Pre-Raphaelites
Some thoughts on the formation process of the Korin style - Focusing on the expression of water -
Practical use of copperplate technology as seen in Aodo Denzen: Thoughts on the newly revised Bankokuzenzu and Dutch studies
Angle research - Focusing on odalisque paintings -
About Dürer's "Madonna and Child with Many Animals"
About maple paintings among the wall paintings of Chishakuin Temple by Tohaku Hasegawa
Maria Kannon statue research Focusing on Dehua kiln and Hirado ware Maria Kannon statues
1996
About the monuments of Shaanxi Province - Focusing on the iconographic interpretation of the disc pattern -
About Miro's early works - Focusing on "Farm" -
About abstract paintings in the early Showa period - Jiro Yoshiwara's 1930s -
About Korin Ogata's ``Irises Byobu'' -Freedom from the constraints of narrative pictures-
Art as falsehood - Focusing on F. Nietzsche's ``The Birth of Tragedy''
Who about the folding screen with sleeves?
About “Akita Events” by Tsuguharu Fujita
About the Kizil cave paintings
1995
Research on Ito Jakuchu - Focusing on the Rokuonji wall paintings -
Kuniyoshi's warrior picture theory
End of the Century Poster Art Research
About the white iron pattern of Jishu kiln in China
About Yosa Buson's ``Night-Colored Tower View''
Yuzo Saeki Theory
1994
william morris research
About Kokubunji Honten Mandala
Research on Kazunori Ishibashi Focusing on various issues regarding portraits in Meiji Western paintings
Gable sculpture of the temple of Zeus at Olympia
Research on Max Ernst - Focusing on "Collage Romance" and "The Hundred Woman" (1929) -
1993
Research on Masamu Yanase -As an avant-garde painter of the Taisho era-
The meaning of pottery decoration in the Greek geometric style - Focusing on the so-called ``Dipylon vase''
Yukimura during the Ota and Hedari eras - About Shutsugu Yukimura's early works -
george grosse research
About El Greco's "The Resurrection of Christ"
1992
Estimation of Korin Ogata's works during the Edo period and their characteristics
About the murals of the Saint-Savin church - Focusing on the mural in the crypt "Illustrated Martyrdom of St. Savinus and St. Cyprian" -
Problems with criticism in Aristotle
Thoughts on the Kongoji temple moon landscape screen
Goya's Thoughts on Carton - Third series (1778-1780) Decorates El Pardo Palace, the bedroom of the Crown Prince and his wife, and the antechamber.
About carton for tapestry
Leon Bakst and Decoration: Bakst as a stage decorator for the Russian Ballet
1991
About Hakuin and Zen paintings and their expressions
Nicolaus Cusanus' ARS
Seiko theory
Kawanabe Kyosai's people and art - Focusing on the Jigokudayu figure -
About Lao Coon
About Beardsley
1990
K. Malevich's Theory - Focusing on "Conquest of the Sun" -
Thoughts on Vermeer's early works
About the Hindu cave temple Elephanta Cave 1
About Shunso Hishida's early works
About the statue of Manjusri Bodhisattva on horseback and acolytes at Abe Monju-in Temple
Research on "technology art" in contemporary art - Attempt to define the basic concept of "technology art" -
Consideration of “The Painter’s Image” - Shunsuke Matsumoto in 1941 -
About Duccio's "Virgin of Lucerai"
1989
About Sotatsu Tawaraya's "The Tale of Genji Sekiya Miobetsu Byobu"
A theory of Georges Seurat, focusing on three works: ``Parade'', ``Chayu Dance'', and ``Circus''.
Joseph Beuys and social sculpture
1988
pablo picasso theory
Thoughts on Shigesaku Aoki's Wadatsumi no Iroko no Miya
Jean Francois Millet research
Thematic and iconographic research of Fernand Khnopf
1987
About Fra Angelico “Annunciation”
Study of Leonardo da Vinci's ``The Last Supper''
1986
About Oribe Pottery
Horyuji Kondo Mural Painting
About Botticelli's "Spring"
Research on imperial crown style
Research on theater in the Greek classical period
1985
Thoughts on the development of “Okuni Kabuki Zu”
About "Kasuga Mandala" - Focusing on "Deer Mandala" -
A critical examination of S. K. Langer's theory of art - Rereading it as a theory of art models -
About the depiction of the human body in ancient Egyptian paintings and reliefs
Kandinsky research
Research on Jan Van Eyck - Focusing on the Marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Arnolfini
Examination of the engraving date based on the calligraphy style of the halo inscription of the Shaka Triad in the Kondo Hall of Horyuji Temple
Educational significance of creative activities - Research on the meaning of drawing -
About the illustration of Amida Rai in the late Heian period
Iranian Miniature Research: About the “Night Journey” illustration
About “The Story of the Holy Cross” by Piero della Francesca
1984
About Korin Ogata's ``White Rakuten Screen''
About the folding screen of Tomioka Tessai, Abe Nakamaro Meishu Mochizuki and Entsu Daishi Kuremon Insho
Research on the Buddhist sculptor Kaikei: Mainly his early statue creation and his relationship with the Katsuken clan.
Ch. Dresser research - Focusing on morphological modeling theory -
Uchiyama Eiji Temple Jizo Butsu Thought
1983
Research on Grünewald - Focusing on the Isenheim Altarpiece -
A study on “folk art”
A study of Paul Klee's creative process
1982
Josef Albers research
Basic research of Zhao Mengfuan
The place of Venetian glass in the history of glass crafts - Focusing on the Filigrana technique -
vermeer research
Characteristics of the historical materials of Toshodai-ji Temple during its founding period as seen in "Ganjin Wajo San Iki" - Introduction to the art of Toshodai-ji Temple during its founding period -
A study on the caryatids of Erechtheion
What Johannes Itten's plastic education teaches - On the history of the art academy and the liberation of the individual -
1981
Decorativeness in Takeji Fujishima's landscape paintings
Tsuyoshi Nakamura - His painting style is particularly concentrated in three works from his later years -
Aperçu historique des ètudes sur le Livre de Saint Jaques
et sur ses diverse forms
Ideological issues in art classification
About the design treatment of decorative motifs in ancient India - Focusing on the botanical motifs on medallions -
A study on the position of works of art in the 20th century
art theory alan
Frank Stella - Focusing on developments in the '60s -
1980
Regarding inevitable figurative expression in Celtic art - Considerations from the perspective of religion and customs -
Chagall's essential thoughts seen in illustrations
On Ryusei Kishida's concept of "decoration" - its formation and transformation seen in the production of oil still life paintings -
P.About the characteristics of Klee's line drawings
Yakushiji Sho Kannon - Interpretation of its figurative meaning -
A study on German Expressionism: “A direction towards synthesis” From painting to performing arts to architecture
1979
Thoughts on ink painting The origin and significance of Chinese ink landscape painting
Spatial expression through architectural style in Hellenistic painting
Function of art in modern times
Freudianism in the study of contemporary art
Regarding the difference between the two Imatsume statues seen in the Kyoto Hakuhon Kofukuji Mandala
Fan-faced Lotus Sutra small study
About Shoan Garden in Niiharu Village, Niiharu District
1978
About the flowers in "Fushikaden" - Introduction to Zeami's essay on art -
About the budding of our country's cloisonné technique
A study on Mondrian's theory of art
A study on modern art theory from Impressionism to Cezanne Cubism
"Japanese confectionery thoughts"
