【Japanese flower and bird painting / art wall painting】 Watanabe Shotei

Watanabe Province Pavilion Title of work — "Birds and Flowers" Watanabe Shatei was a Japanese painter active from the Meiji to the Taisho period. He is good at exquisite and fashionable flower and bird paintings. He has exhibited at the Paris World Expo and held a solo exhibition in London, winning high praise in Europe and the United States. In Japan he is credited for creating the original cloisonne painting of the Akasaka Palace Guest House. Shōtei, who lived in Asakusa all his life, was a painter who stubbornly protected the Japanese aesthetic sense. On the other hand, his excellent painting and descriptive skills were outstanding in the Japanese painting world at the time. In the Meiji 20s, he established a unique style of painting that blended traditional and Western styles. In 1878, he traveled to the United States and Europe, stayed in Paris for three years, became the first Japanese painter to study Western painting, and exhibited at the Paris Exposition. ~1910) and created designs for ceramics and cloisonne, which won acclaim abroad. He produced numerous paintings and illustrations and produced three outstanding books: Seitei kacho gafu ("Shōtei's Birds and Flowers Album"), 1890~91; Kacho gafu ("Birds and Flowers Album"), 1903 ; the last series published in 1916 was also called Seitei kacho gafu. Watanabe Shōtei was known as a master of flower and bird painting during his lifetime, but he was gradually forgotten after his death. In recent years, there has been a growing momentum for re-evaluation by researchers and art lovers, with a steady increase in attention. In March 2021, starting from the University Art Museum of Tokyo University of the Arts, the first retrospective exhibition "Watanabe Shutei - Flower and Bird Paintings Fascinating Europe and America" will be held in domestic museums. https://image-cdn-flare.qdm.cloud/q665027dd6a3a4/image/data/Seitei/_1_1.jpg https://image-cdn-flare.qdm.cloud/q665027dd6a3a4/image/data/2022/03/05/4b8fb3032c6e2e3859679d7a42645f78.jpg https://image-cdn-flare.qdm.cloud/q665027dd6a3a4/image//data/Seitei/s_9093142_1.jpg https://image-cdn-flare.qdm.cloud/q665027dd6a3a4/image//data/Seitei/s_9093143_1.jpg https://image-cdn-flare.qdm.cloud/q665027dd6a3a4/image//data/Seitei/s_9093144_1.jpg https://image-cdn-flare.qdm.cloud/q665027dd6a3a4/image//data/Seitei/s_9093145_1.jpg