Kanae Yamamoto (artist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Kanae Yamamoto (artist)

Japanese artist

Date of Birth: 24-Oct-1882

Place of Birth: Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 08-Oct-1946

Profession: educator, painter, printmaker

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Kanae Yamamoto (artist)

  • Kanae Yamamoto (?? ?, IPA: [ka.na.e], 24 October 1882 – 8 October 1946) was a Japanese artist, known primarily for his prints and yoga Western-style paintings.
  • He is credited with originating the sosaku-hanga ("creative prints") movement, which aimed at self-expressive printmaking, in contrast to the commercial studio systems of ukiyo-e and shin-hanga.
  • He initiated movements in folk arts and children's art education that continue to be influential in Japan. Kanae trained as a wood engraver in the Western style before studying Western-style painting.
  • While at art school he executed a two-colour print of a fisherman he had sketched on a trip to Chiba.
  • Its publication ignited an interest in the expressive potential of prints that developed into the sosaku-hanga movement.
  • Kanae spent 1912 to 1916 in Europe and brought ideas back to Japan gleaned from exhibitions of peasant crafts and children's art in Russia.
  • In the late 1910s he founded movements the promotion of creative peasant crafts and in children's art education; the latter quickly gained adherents but was suppressed under Japan's growing militarism.
  • These ideas experienced a revival after World War II. Though always a supporter, Kanae left behind printmaking in the 1920s and devoted his artistic output to painting until he suffered a stroke in 1942.
  • He spent his remaining years in mountainous Nagano in the city of Ueda, where the Kanae Yamamoto Memorial Museum was erected in 1962.

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