児島善三郎
ZENZABURO KOJIMA
[1893─1962]
ヨーロッパ留学中に体得した立体表現と日本的平面性の両面性を画面の中に大胆に組み入れ、風景画においては、かのピカソもなし得なかった平面と立体的奥行きの融合に加え、情緒と色彩との親和性の構築に成功した類まれなる芸術家である。そこで得たダイナミズムを晩年の静物画や瓶花の絵の中でも縦横に発揮した。一点一点厳密に構成された作品は見るものに静かな喜びと満足感を与え続けている。
Zenzaburo Kojima is an incomparable artist who boldly merged duality of cubic expression obtained in his studying days in Europe and Japanese flatness-expression in the same canvas. In particularly at landscape painting, he had achieved merger of flatness and cubic depth which Great Picasso had never achieved. And he also had succeeded in configurating compatibility of emotion and color. He applied these dynamics freely into still-life painting and flower― vase painting in his final years. The paintings were strictly configurated one by one, and they have been giving viewers still pleasure and satisfaction.