The Western Painting department aims to nurture Western painters and experts in the field of Western painting who can play leading roles in society in the future by building on the specialized education they have received at our school or at other universities through more specialized research.
The curriculum includes specialized subjects designed to deepen students' sensibilities, cultivate their highly creative expressive abilities, and help them establish their own expressions as Western-style painters.
Major Specialized Subjects
Practical skills and exercises
Completion research
Students will work on creating artwork and writing a research report. The results will serve as the foundation for their artistic activities after graduation.
Additionally, for those who wish to proceed to a doctoral program, the graduation research can be considered a form of reflection and practice that will enable them to explore and select a research topic for after they proceed to the doctoral program.
MC Exhibition
The MC Exhibition is an exhibition of Western-style paintings, Japanese paintings, and prints by students enrolled in the Graduate School of the University of Tsukuba.
The purpose of this program is to present works that are the result of learning and research in the offered course subjects of "Western Painting," "Special Western Painting," "Japanese Painting," "Special Japanese Painting," "Printmaking," and "Special Printmaking," and to receive external recognition.
In addition, as part of the "Special Research and Production Presentation Seminar I and II," participants will take an active role in the publicity, display, and management of an exhibition, learning how to present their works in order to develop their future creative endeavors.
In addition, a critique of the works will be held at the venue by all the faculty members involved, and the content and methods of instruction will be made public.
Past MC Exhibition related articles can be found here (up to the 35th exhibition)
Career path for graduates
Graduates of the Western Film course continue their creative research even after graduation and are very active in presenting their work.
They are active as painters, illustrators, university teachers, high school teachers, civil servants, and in general companies related to painting, and some continue their creative activities overseas.
Main graduates
S55 Masami Uchida Professor at Hiroshima University (retired) Painter
S56 Tsukasa Suzuki Professor, Akita Public Art University (retired) Painter
S56 Jiro Nozawa Meisei University Professor Painter
S57 Osamu Kato Chiba University Professor (retired) Painter
S57 Shigeo Kitazawa Professor, Yokohama Art University (retired) Painter
S60 Satoshi Sekizaki Professor, Okayama Prefectural University Painter
S60 Takeshi Higashijima Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design Painter
S60 Toshiya Matsuda Kokushikan University Professor Painter
H1 Motohiro Ozawa Professor, Saitama University (retired) Painter
H2 Takumi Matsunaga Professor, Kumamoto University Painter
H2 Shunsuke Kobayashi Yamagata University Professor Painter
H3 Hiroaki Okeda Professor, Kagoshima University Painter
H3 Koichi Watanabe Professor, Fukushima University Painter
H8 Takuya Yoshida Professor, Tohoku University of Art and Design Painter
H12 Masahiko Kuda Associate Professor, Utsunomiya University Painter
H12 Yukihiko Hino Professor at Tama Art University Painter
H14 Takayuki Kato Associate Professor, Fukuoka University of Education Painter
Yoshihiro Torigoe, Assistant Professor at Yokohama National University of Art and Design, Painter
H17 Etsushi Endo Associate Professor at Yokohama National University of Art and Design, Painter
H17 Kenichi Obana Associate Professor, Akita University of Art and Design Painter
H18 Hiroyuki Funatake Associate Professor, Hokkaido University of Education Painter
H18 Hiroaki Kano Associate Professor, Tohoku University of Art and Design Painter
H23 Kensuke Higuchi Associate Professor, Nara University of Education Painter
