Taikan yokoyama biography examples

On November 1, 2013, my wife and I visited the Yokohama Museum of Art to see an exhibition entitled “The Life and Art of Yokoyama Taikan: His Mentor, Friends and Inspirations”. Perhaps, Taikan is one of the most well known Japanese master artists of the 20th Century.

How could it be? Let’s first look at his biographical features.

To start with, he learnt traditional Japanese painting as part of the first batch of students at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. Here, Taikan met his lifelong mentor, Okakura Tenshin (1863-1913), who was an early advocator of the Japanese arts.

Taikan yokoyama biography examples in english

Tenshin seemed to have inspired Taikan to seek ways and means of combining traditional Japanese art with western art forms.

Naturally, Taikan and his art friends incorporated “perspective” methods to their traditional paintings.

Also, they tried to eliminate clear-cut lines where possible. All these efforts led to successful exhibitions in New York, Boston, London, Berlin and Paris from 1904 to 1905. Taikan and his