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Nagashima Museum
opened in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, in 1989, the centenary of the city's official foundation. Located on a hill overlooking Sakurajima and Kagoshima Bay, at an elevation of 110 metres, the museum's collection of some thousand objects amassed by businessman , includes works by Kuroda Seiki, Rodin François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor, generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a uniqu ..., and Chagall, as well as Satsuma ware. See also * Kagoshima City Museum of Art * Reimeikan, Kagoshima Prefectural Center for Historical Material * List of Cultural Properties of Japan - paintings (Kagoshima) References External links *Nagashima Museum Buildings and structures in Kagoshima Art museums and galleries in Kagoshima Prefecture Museums established in 1989 1989 establishments in Japan {{Japan-museum-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fujishima Takeji
was a Japanese people, Japanese painter, noted for his work in developing Romanticism and impressionism within the ''yoga (art), yōga'' (Western-style) art movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese painting. In his later years, he was influenced by the Art Nouveau movement. Biography Fujishima was born to an ex-samurai class household in Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, where his father had been a retainer of the Shimazu clan daimyō. After studying art at Kagoshima Middle School he left home in 1884 to pursue his studies in Tokyo, first with Kawabata Gyokusho, a Shijō school ''nihonga'' artist. However, Fujishima was attracted to the new western-style oil painting techniques, and switched to ''yōga''-style painting, which he learned under Yamamoto Hōsui and Soyama Yukihiro. His graduation piece, “Cruelty” was exhibited at the 3rd Meiji Art Association Exhibition in 1891, where it was viewed by noted novelist and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |