Event
Special Exhibition Miwa Chosei – Delight of Color
Apr 22, 2015(wed) – Jun 14, 2015 (sun)
Admission:
Adults and university: 500yen（400）
Students (high school): 400yen（320）
Students (elementary and junior high school): 200yen（160）
* Prices shown in ( ) are group (more than 20 persons) discount tickets.
* The people of 65 or more years old are admitted free (ID required)
* Persons with disabilities are admitted free with one accompanying person each.
http://insho-domoto.com/plan/new/current/index-e.html
Venue
KYOTO PREFECTURAL INSHO-DOMOTO MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
http://www2.ocn.ne.jp/~domoto/
Access: 26-3 Kamiyanagi-cho, Hirano Kita-ku, Kyoto, 603-8355, Japan
Tel: 075-463-0007
Hours: 9:30 ~ 17:00
（entry up to 30 minutes before closing.）
Closed: Monday (Tuesday if the Monday is a national holiday)
and Year-end/New Year
Description
Miwa Chosei, born in Yoita-cho Mishima-gun (now known as Nagaoka-shi) Niigata Prefecture in 1901. He was one of the best pupils of Insho Domoto (Japanese painter).
His family moved to Kyoto after he finished Yoita Jinjo Elementary School. in 1914, as his father Daijiro, a “yoga” artist (western-style painting), had studied in Kyoto Prefectural School of Painting. The following year, Chosei enrolled in the Foundation Course of Kyoto City School of Arts and Crafts, and two years later started the course in painting. In 1921 he started at the Kyoto Municipal School of Painting and learned”nihonga” (Japanese-style painting) with Shoko Uemura, Benji Asada, and Yoson Ikeda.
In 1927, one of his works “Mt. Higashi” was shown in the national “Teiten” exhibition (the 8th) for the first time. “Spring Hill” and “Building Ships on the Sand Dunes” were selected for exhibition at the 12th and 15th “Teiten” respectively, and Chosei began to receive attention as an up-and-coming painter. After World War II, influenced by his master Insho, he worked on developing his own abstract compositions, vibrant with color. In 1961 he was awarded the Art Academy Prize for “Vermillion Pillars”. He continued to create flowers and bird paintings, landscapes, and portraits with keen powers of observation and a unique sense of color, leaving a significant legacy to the “Nihon gadan” (Japanese art world).
The current exhibition is a selection of around 120 works from Chosei’s “oeuvre”, including watercolor paintings, and illustrations.
We hope you appreciate his dynamic and engaging visions, still full of vitality even now, in this retrospective, 34 years after Miwa Chosei’s death.
