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Watanabe Seitei

其他書名	Imaginarium Natury : Z Kolekcji Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej Manggha : Dar Raymonda Milewskiego
出版	Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, 2023
ISBN	83670250679788367025065
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rrFO0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"Watanabe Seitei is considered one of the most mysterious, forgotten yet legendary Japanese artists. The mystery is in the fact that he is almost unknown, as it is difficult to find his works in Japanese museums and collections, just as there is hardly any mention of him in Japanese art history. But then he was almost a household name in his lifetime - both in Japan and in the West. As late as 1916, the Japanese advertised him as a 'painter known throughout the Western world.' He was active in three periods: late Edo (1603-1868), Meiji (1868-1912), and Taishō (1912-1926). In the 21st century, Watanabe Seitei and his work remain largely unknown in Japan.It was not until recently that the systematic research of his oeuvre was launched in Japan. Even though a considerable number of his major works can be found in Western collections, no comprehensive publication on his work has been issued in Europe or the United States. This is surprising considering that, from the point of view of Western culture and art, Watanabe Seitei played a key role in shaping Japonisme, inspiring artists and demonstrating the transcultural potential of Japanese art. [...]Ryō Furuta, [a] prominent expert on Seitei's work, believes that his art is characterized by a unique blend of the conservative and the revolutionary, and these 'contradictions became a determining feature of his oeuvre. Indeed, these two facets of his work - the global together with an indigenousness informed by Japan's changing landscape, as it shifted from the Edo to the modern period - account for the fascination of Seitei's work.' But it is his depictions of nature - birds and flowers - that are masterpieces of painting not just on the Japanese but on the global scale.In 2022, the Manggha Museum received an extraordinary gift from Raymond Milewski, a botany professor from the United States: his collection of works by Watanabe Seitei and other Japanese kachō-ga artists. This is the largest collection of Seitei's works in the world, comprising over forty paintings, colour woodblock prints, and all of his picture books. [...]The subjects of Seitei's kachō-ga were not rare birds or plants but rather those well known and easily recognizable, present in man's most immediate surroundings, 'outside the window', in the garden, in the park, encountered during travel and pilgrimage. Being well known, they activate, almost automatically, symbolic connotations as each of the living beings depicted by Seitei - whether a bird or a plant - has its specific symbolic meaning, deeply ingrained in Japanese culture. Inspired by his observation of nature, Seitei's works are also characterized by unique mindfulness, manifested in noting the tiniest events of natural life that goes on around us. Many of the images of nature depicted by the artist no longer exist. However, his masterly, almost magical technique - his skill in using ink and watercolours - immortalized those images, conveying their spirit, their essence, and thus capturing and articulating the imaginary of nature."--