Kiyomiya Takifumi “Wild”

Author birth and death: 1917 Tokyo – 1991 Tokyo
Year of production: 1958
Technique Material: Monotype, paper
Dimensions: 29.7×28.4cm
Signature and date: Signed and dated lower left "n. Seimiya'58"

Exhibition history: "Shunyo-kai" 53rd exhibition April 1958, 4, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; "Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of Modern Art Collection Exhibition + University of Tsukuba Collection Ishii Collection Exhibition" Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of Art, October 17-2007, 10 cat. 5.

Literature: Edited by Rintaro Terakado, “Ishii Collection I. Paintings in the University of Tsukuba,” University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Art, 2011, cat. 50.

Collection number: 2005-JP-IS013

Work description:
This work is an early work by Kiyomiya, who graduated from the oil painting department of the Tokyo Fine Arts School (currently the Tokyo University of the Arts Faculty of Fine Arts) in 1942, and began his career as a printmaker in earnest.Although his woodblock prints are made from a single block, the color and tone change with each print, giving form to his own feelings that change moment by moment as he faces reality.In order to express the amorphous and organic "life" or "soul," Kiyomiya probably chose the monotype technique, which emphasizes improvisation even more than woodblock prints.There is a unity between his thought and technique.