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山口 長男

YAMAGUCHI Takeo

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山口 長男

YAMAGUCHI Takeo

Title
作品(かたち)Work (Form)
Year
1954
Medium
油彩/合板Oil on plywood
Dims/Durs
185×182
Collection
東京都現代美術館Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Accession number
1975-00-0533-000
Notes
ベニヤ板を支持体とした油彩画を山ロが初めて制作するのは、1952年のことである。昭和初頭のパリ滞在以来抽象絵画を描いていた画家の転機は、ここから始まった。ベニヤという規格化された形状の支持体を用いることで、地は長方形或いはそれを2枚並べた正方形に限定される。その限られた形状の中で、様々な形態が却って自由に展開することになったのだ。闇のような黒地を背景に浮き上がった五つの赤いかたち。それらは生まれたばかりの子供の成長するエネルギーをはらむように、不定型ながらくっきりとした存在感を示している。後に手掛けることになる霧島焼を想起させる艶やかで堅牢な表面は、パレットナイフで塗り固めたものという。終戦の年まで住み、そして耕した朝鮮半島の土に由来する赤い色は、やがて画面全体を覆い尽くすまでに成長を遂げ、地を背景としたかたちは、逆転して地そのものとなる。第1回現代日本美術展優秀賞受賞作。(N.S.)It was in 1952 that Yamaro produced his first oil paintings using plywood as a support. This was a turning point for the artist, who had been painting abstract paintings since his stay in Paris at the beginning of the Showa period. By using veneer, a support with a standardized shape, Yamaro was limited to rectangles or squares of two rectangles on the ground. Within this limited shape, a variety of forms could be freely developed. Five red shapes rise against a dark black background. They are irregularly shaped, yet have a clear presence, as if they contain the growing energy of a newborn child. The glossy, solid surface, reminiscent of the Kirishima pottery he would later work with, is said to have been painted over with a palette knife. The red color, derived from the soil of the Korean peninsula where he lived and cultivated until the end of the war, eventually grows to cover the entire picture plane, and the shape of the earth as a background is reversed to become the earth itself. This work won the Excellence Prize at the 1st Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan. (N.S.)
  • Data extracted from ToMuCo Tokyo Museum Collection by Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture (Tōkyōto Rekishi Bunka Zaidan). Extracted January 21, 2022.
  • 2024-12-10
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