Read this Wildlife Art Journal article THE LAKE AT HAKONE. Ukiyo-e from The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (東海道五十三次 Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi Subscribers may see all 65 images. NANDIN, oil on canvas, 73 X 61 centimeters, By Tsutomu KikuchiSubscribers may see all 65 images. PADDY FIELD—SWINHOE'S SNIPE, acrylic, 51.5 X 36 centimeters, By Michiaki UjiharaSubscribers may see all 65 images. JAPANESE FRESHWATER FISH AND OTHERS, acrylic, 73 X 52 centimeters, By Kenji NanamiyaSubscribers may see all 65 images. FIELD OF RENGE FLOWERS—WHITE-CHEEKED STARLING AND RENGE, watercolor, 55 X 38 centimeters, By Eriko KobayashiSubscribers may see all 65 images. Japan, On The RiseAfter Decades Of Relative Obscurity, More Japanese Artists Are Reaching An International StageWritten By Todd Wilkinson (Author's Bio) Eriko Kobayashi dishes a lament familiar to animal artists regardless of their age or nationality: “I took oil painting at the Art College in Yokohama. However, the teachers did not allow me to paint animals because they were not considered suitable subject matter,” she says. “I became disappointed and considered quitting art studies.”
After graduating from college in Japan, Kobayashi, who is adept in a range of media, discovered the works of wildlife artists in North America in 1993, then expanded her range to Europe, Africa, and Australia.
The cumulative exposure inspired her to persevere, despite a common aversion that has existed in academia not only to illustration over the last half century, but especially to realistic interpretations of animal subject matter.
“The greatest happiness of my artistic life is to share the natural world through my artworks with an audience, even if they live in a city. It allows me to have joy in giving the viewer a chance to open their eyes a little bit more toward the natural beings living near to us,” she says today. “I paint with a feeling to repay nature, which has given me so many gifts in my own life.”
Kobayashi is among a burgeoning community of artists in Japan who are shedding provincial obscurity by asserting a wider presence internationally. Through Eriko’s assistance, Wildlife Art Journal is offering readers a cross-section sampling of 60 works, from 20 contemporary painters, sculptors, carvers and... Additional Article Information:· Article is 1,130 words long (250 are displayed in this preview). Author: Todd Wilkinson Post Date:August 9th, 2009 'In Wildlife Art Journal's commitment to international coverage, we feature 57 works by 20 different Japanese artists. If you're unfamiliar with them now, you won't be in the years ahead. Not only are they bringing fresh interpretations of the natural world, but they're expanding the boundary of how the world thinks about wildlife art. Inside this story you'll find stimulating pieces by Eriko Kobyashi, Yoshitaka Minowa, Yoshihiro Funada, Yasuo Watanabe, Toyomi Tanaka, Hisashi Masuda, Mitsuru Nagashima, Nobuo Eguchi, Osao Ujihara, Setsuo Hamanaka, Kenji Nanamiya, Kiyoshi Yasuda, Mari Otaguro, Masaomi Yamamoto, Michiaki Ujihara, Tadashi Inoue, Chisato Sugiura, Tsunehiko Kuwabara, Tsutomu Kikuchi, and Utako Kikutani
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