Self-Portrait
Ai-Mitsu 1934
From the collection of
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
Details
Title: Self-Portrait
Creator: Ai-Mitsu
Date: 1934/1934
Physical Dimensions: w14 x h25.8 cm
Object Work Type: グアッシュ・クレヨン、紙
Object Title: 自顔像
Artist Name: 靉光
Type: Gouache and crayon on paper
Rights: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
Nagoya-shi, Japan
The museum's Collection features international and domestic fine art of the twentieth century. It covers art movements from the twentieth century up to the present with works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Gustav Klimt, and Paul Klee. We have significant paintings and sculptures by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and other German Expressionists, works by Joan Miro, Max Ernst, and other Surrealists, and postwar art of the USA. Our collection of Japanese art includes works by Yuichi Takahashi, a pioneer in western-style oil paintings, as well as pieces by Ryuzaburo Umehara and Sotaro Yasui, along with masterpieces of Japanese-style paintings by Taikan Yokoyama and Shunso Hishida. Works by contemporary artists are also collected, as are those by artists and works deeply connected with Aichi Prefecture.
Aimitsu
1907 - 1946
Ai-Mitsu was a Japanese artist and painter. He is usually identified as a Surrealist although he also painted works that can be classified in other styles and genres.
He was born into a small landowning family in 1907 in Hiroshima, and given the name Nichiro Ishimura, which he later changed to Ai-Mitsu when he moved to Tokyo to pursue his career as an artist. In 1934 he married Kie, a teacher of the deaf who helped support him through his struggles as an artist. His most famous work is "Landscape with an Eye", currently held in the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. It consists of shapeless forms with a large eye in a landscape setting.
In 1944 he was conscripted and sent to China, where he died of a fever in the months after the war.
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