Research On Animal Paintings Of Kayama Matazo

Kayama Matazo is one of the newly rising Japanese postwar artists representing the new development of modern Japanese painting.He has extremely rich artistic creation experience and had created innumerable classic pieces in his entire life,which are so precious for later generations.The fields involved in Kayama Matazo's artistic creation is very extensive and the enrichment of content and the uniqueness of artistic technique are stunning.Thus,he is called “wizard” of Japanese art and also “Picasso of the East”.This article spreads out the discussion mainly based on Kayama Matazo's early animal painting series from 1950 s to 60 s.The main content of this article is divided into three sections.The first section mainly analyzes the origin of animal painting concept and discusses the questions regarding how the Japanese animal painting was brought up.The discussion is from the aspects of both China and Japan.The second section basically describes the historic development of animal painting.It spreads out the discussion from the appearance of early Japanese animal patterns,the maturation stage of animal related flower and bird painting,the embryonic form and the establishment of animal painting and so on.The purpose is to clearly summarize how the Japanese animal painting have been developed.The third section which is also the focus of this article mainly analyzes the art of Kayama Matazo's animal painting including its cause,artistic thought,personal experience,historical background,important genres,inheritance relationship,artistic style and so on.It is to provide readers more information of Kayama Matazo's early animal painting through this chapter.Kayama Matazo is a very familiar name to Chinese people.He had given lectures for couple times in China Central Academy of Fine Arts and was also invited as a visiting professor.He also had many students in China and had an effect on Chinese painting circle for many years.His way of painting and experience of artistic creation is well known by Chinese people.In the meantime,he likes Chinese culture very much.The ancient traditional Japanese culture has always been affected by ancient Chinese culture.He fell in love with ancient Chinese art in the late stage of his artistic career and had been to many famous places in China to sketch and investigate for a few times.He also created landscape works of Song Dynasty of China mixed with Japanese national characteristic,such as ?Imitation of Northern Song's landscape?.This is a modern way of exploring ancient Chinese art.He absorbs the decorativeness of Japanese “Statsu and kren School” to create a batch of famous works like gold painting,body painting and etc.His artistic style can also be found in ceramics,print making,wall painting,practical art and etc.,which makes him an artist with very rich artistic creation experience.The early animal painting is a typical artistic creation experience for Kayama Matazo just graduated from school and is the first step of his artistic career.The beginning flare of his Japanese postwar artistic development path is also attributed to this step.The process of his absorption,use and creation of culture and art is the base point for his later artistic development path and also plays an important role in his entire artistic career.In the meantime,this is also a vital part to make his artistic path richer and more legendary.