Kishida Ryūsei
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Ryūsei Kishida
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June 23, 1891 Tokyo, Japan |
| Died | December 20, 1929 (aged 38) Tokuyama, Yamaguchi |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Known for | Painter |
| Movement | Yōga |
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| Artist | Kishida Ryūsei |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Medium | Oil on wood |
| Dimensions | 52 cm × 44 cm (20 in × 17 in) |
| Location | Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Hayama, Kanagawa |
Ryūsei Kishida (岸田 劉生 Kishida Ryūsei?, June 23, 1891 – December 20, 1929) was a Japanese painter in Taishō and Shōwa period Japan. He is best known for his realistic yōga-style portraiture, but also for his nihonga paintings in the 1920s.
Kishida was born in the Ginza district of Tokyo in 1891, the son of Kishida Ginkō, a noted journalist who once assisted James Curtis Hepburn compile his Japanese-English dictionary. Kishida left school in 1908 to study Western-style art under Kuroda Seiki at his Hakubakai studio. He began exhibiting his works at the government’s annual Bunten exhibition in 1910.
While his earliest works reflect the plein-air style promoted by Kuroda, Kishida later became close friends with Mushanokōji Saneatsu and his Shirakaba (White Birch Society), through which he was introduced to fauvism and cubism. He formed his own artistic circle called Fyūzankai (Fusain Society) in 1912 to help promote the styles of humanism and post-impressionism. The group soon collapsed due to internal conflicts after holding two exhibitions, but Kishida created another circle called Sōdosha in 1915. Among his associates in this group was the artist Kohno Michisei.
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