Masuo Ikeda "Romantic Landscape"

 

Author's birth and death: 1934 Mukden (Manchuria) [Shenyang, Liaoning Province (China)] – 1997 Atami (Shizuoka)
Year of production: 1965
Technique Material: Drypoint, roulette, etching
Dimensions: 36.2×33.7cm
Edition: AP
Signature, etc.: "EPA" in the lower left margin; "m.Ikeda '65" in the lower right margin

Exhibition history: The 33rd International Venice Biennale, 1966 [Grand Prix, Prints Section]; "Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of Modern Art Collection Exhibition + University of Tsukuba Collection Ishii Collection Exhibition" Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of Art October 2007-10, 5 cat. 28 ; “Manabia Terrace Opening Commemoration Exhibition from the Ishii Collection from the University of Tsukuba: Encountering Beauty: [First Half] Encountering the World of Paintings”, Manabia Terrace [Higashine City Museum of Art], November 25rd to December 2016th, 11, cat. 3.

Literature: “Masuo Ikeda Complete Prints” 1991, Bijutsu Shuppansha no. 385, col. fig. p. 134; Edited by Rintaro Terakado, “Ishii Collection I. Paintings in the University of Tsukuba”, University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Art, 2011, cat .89.

Collection number: 2005-JP-IS005

Work description:
Masuo Ikeda won the grand prize in the print category at the 1rd Venice Biennale in 1966 for this work and other works from this collection, including The Wedding of the Animals, Insects Crossing the Garden, and The Sacred Hand 33.A woman in striped clothes rides a bicycle, and behind her are animals and girls.In the background, the names of artists of all ages are lined up in inverted letters: Gauguin, Wolls, Dubuffet, Giacometti, Hieronymus Bosch, Paul Klee, Rousseau, and Pollock. As he expanded his activities overseas from the 1960s onwards, Ikeda realized that he could not escape his Japanese sensibilities.This is not an extension of Western imitation, Japonism, or the ukiyo-e tradition, but an expression of today's Japan that Ikeda experienced in his life.