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Kinoshita Takanori
(Western style painter)
Takanori Kinoshita (February 24, 1894 - March 29, 1973) was a Japanese Western-style painter.
He was born on February 24, 1894 in Yotsuya-ku, Tokyo. His father, Yuzaburo, was a native of Wakayama Prefecture who started his career in the judicial field and later became the president of Meiji University, and his mother was the third daughter of Kojima. His mother was the third daughter of Mr. Kojima. Takanori was the eldest of seven siblings, and the third son was Yoshiken Kinoshita, who also became a Western-style painter. It is said that Takanori's desire for Western-style painting was largely influenced by his maternal uncle, Kikuo Kojima, a Western art historian. In 1906, he entered the Department of Political Science and Economics at Kyoto University's Faculty of Law, and the following year, he re-entered the Department of Philosophy at Tokyo Imperial University's Faculty of Letters, but left the University in 1919. In 1921, he re-entered the Department of Philosophy at the Imperial University of Tokyo, but left the University of Tokyo in 1919. At that time, he began to paint oil paintings because of his friendships with Zentaro Kojima, Kazue Hayashi, Yuzo Saeki and others. In 1921, his "Portrait of Tominaga" was selected for the 8th Nika-kai Exhibition, and in 1923, he received the "Ushiyu Award" and the "Nika-kai Award". In 1927, he was invited to become a member of the Shunyou-kai, and for a while he exhibited his works at the 1930 Association Exhibition and the Shunyou-kai Exhibition. After leaving the Shunyokai in 1930 and studying in France, he joined the founding of the Issuikai in 1936, and thereafter exhibited annually at the Issuikai Exhibition, and after the war at the Nitten Exhibition, both of which were his main venues for presenting his work. After the war, he began to paint a series of ballerinas. After the war, he attracted attention with a series of ballerinas, but his other works of women were all modeled on sophisticated young urban women, and his clear, simple colors and excellent descriptive skills created a unique style. Most of his works were of women, and often in costumes.
Size] Picture size: W27 x H22cm
Frame size: W43 x H38cm
