- Artist
森 芳雄
MORI Yoshio
- Title
- 画家と家族The Artist and His Family
- Year
- 1954-56
- Medium
- 油彩／カンヴァスOil on canvas
- Dims/Durs
- 162.2×130.3
- Collection
- 東京都現代美術館Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
- Accession number
- 1975-00-0523-000
- Notes
- 森芳雄は、戦前にパリで修業し、生涯にわたって西洋のアカデミズムの本領である人物画・裸体画を描き続けたが、1950年代に様式上の転機を迎えた。明暗の対比によって画面を大きく分割するやり方は依然として存続するが、流れるような輪郭線により動きを与えられていた人物像が、直線による抽象的な構造をもつようになる。このような変化は、当時、日本に伝えられた欧米の抽象絵画の影響によるものであり、従来の古典主義的な造形表現からの脱却を示すものであったといえよう。本作品は1954-56年の作であるが、50年代初頭の作品に比べ、人物の形態がやや丸みを帯び、写実的な性格が強い。しかし、粉飾のない背景に極端に大きさの異なる四つの人物像が幾何学的に配され、抽象性への志向を感じさせる。それまでの作品に見られた人物と背景を区分する描線はここでは見られず、それによって、鋭角的なフォルムを持ちながらも家族の温かみを感じさせる人物像となっている。（K.H.）rnYoshio Mori trained in Paris before World War II and continued to paint figures and nudes, the mainstay of Western academicism, throughout his life, but in the 1950s he reached a stylistic turning point. Although he continued to use contrasts of light and dark to divide the picture plane into large sections, his figures, which had been given movement by flowing outlines, became abstractly structured with straight lines. This change was due to the influence of Western abstract paintings introduced to Japan at the time, and it can be said to represent a departure from the conventional classicist form of figurative expression. Compared to the works of the early 1950s, the figures in this work, created between 1954 and 1956, are slightly more rounded and have a more realistic character. However, the geometric arrangement of four figures of extremely different sizes on a background without powder decoration suggests an orientation toward abstraction. The lines separating the figures from the background, which had been seen in earlier works, are absent here, and the figures are thus presented with sharp angular forms, but with the warmth of a family. (K.H.）rn
- 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