development of this composition, the paintings vary the most in terms of the effects of wet ink rather than in composition. The depth of ink, the extreme ranges of dark and light, and the shaping resulting from the pooled ink along the edges of motifs were clearly the focus of Taikan's...
Taikan Yokoyama was a Japanese artist known for his monochrome ink paintings and his contributions to the Nihonga movement. His works often depicted Mount Fuji. Born in 1868 in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, he studied at the Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō in Tokyo. Influenced by Okakura Kakuzō, he worked...
Taikan was always ahead of the times, always seeking new styles of paintings he felt to be authentic. He leaves us a series of masterpieces that escape being categorized into 'Japanese' or 'Western' paintings. He passed away at his house in Ueno Ikenohata, Tokyo, on February 26, 1958. ...
Yokoyama Taikan was born at the beginning of the Meiji restoration and lived through 89 years of change. In his house overlooking Shinobazu Pond, Yokoyama practised nihonga (traditional Japanese painting), taking images from nature as his inspiration. If his paintings don’t impress, his gardens...
Exploration into the Origin of Fu Baoshi's Wind-Rain Paintings Wind and rain are an important theme in Fu Baoshi's landscape paintings.This is impacted not only by Japanese ukiyo-e,Yokoyama Taikan,and images of wind an... P Yuan - 《Journal of Nanjing Institute of Technology》 被引量: ...
Yokoyama Taikan was a Japanese painter who, with his friend Hishida Shunsō, contributed to the revitalization of traditional Japanese painting in the modern era. Yokoyama studied Japanese painting with Hashimoto Gahō at the Tokyo Art School and became