Lloyd glasses on the head of the okapa, reason for the strange behavior

Portrait of Fujita - Ismael Nery

In 1886, when Fujita Tsuguharu was born, Hirofumi Ito, who became Primary Prime Minister beyond the Meiji Restoration, is preparing for the establishment of the National Assembly and the enactment of the Constitution of the Japan Imperial Japanese Empire, It was an era.

Tsuguji who was born as the youngest sister of the two older sister and older brother, four brothers recalls that "It was loved like a toy." My father was an army military doctor, it was a soldier 's house to be the army martial warrior general supervisor who later succeeded Mori Ogai. However, his mother's cousin was also a family painter who produced many artists such as Western painter Saburo Okada, playwright Kaoru Oyamauchi, music for the playwright, musician for stage critic Regenhara, and architect Yoshinobu Reidehara.

At the age of 14, when I informed my father that Tsuguharu who knew the father's hopes of wanting to be a doctor was a painter, sent it to my father, he said that he was granted a large sum of 50 yen to buy art materials from my father There is an episode. You can see not only the face of only a hard soldier but also the image of his father with an extensive educational policy to accept his / her hope and talent.

18 years old, Tokyo High School Attached Junior High School After my graduation I will offer my father 's hope for studying in France but I will enter the Department of Western Studies at the Tokyo Art School with the advice of Mori Ogai. This seems to have been Ogai 's conscience that it was good to have an academic foundation considering the success as a painter. However, at the time the paintings at that time, the innovation movement by painting theory centered on Kuroda Seiki who came back from France studying abroad has been carried out, studying at university is a disappointing day for Tsuguji who can not ride straight on this trend It seems that. Among such circumstances, exchanges with individual friends such as Okamoto Ichihei (father of Okamoto Tarou) seems to be an important and memorable memory for Tsuguhara after this.

After graduating from Tokyo Art School at the age of 24, I will repeat the defeat three times to apply for the exhibition. At that time, Tsuguharu makes a big love affair with Tomoda and Tomoda and will marry for the first time at the age of 26. However, the marriage does not continue for a long time, and at the age of 27, he gets a promise of three years' remittance from his father and leaves to France alone.

The town calmed down in Paris is Montparnasse. At the time it was still quiet and young painters started gathering due to the low rent. Among them are from Russia to Chagall, Italy to Modigliani, Bulgaria's Pascin, Belarusian Sutin, Polish kiss ring. Painters who established arts in Paris and adopted their own ethnicities and national characteristics in modeling, was called Ecole de Paris (Paris school) along with Tsuguhara.

28 years old, as soon as I went to France, the First World War broke out in 1914, remittance ceased and I got a pitiful life. Even so, remembering to devote yourself to painting always reminded me that I always worked hard to draw pictures. In such a case, the trademark okappa head is completed. It seems that I cut himself every time my hair grows because there is no money to go to the barber. Tsuguharu seems to have felt how to direct and appeal himself to learn and live art in Paris without knowledge, to abandon pride, to meet people, to build friendship relationships. Wearing flashy costumes, or being called by a party and being told that something to dance is a pleasure to dance Japanese dance and to cheer applause. This behavior would have been reflected in a strange thing from a moderate Japanese. Thanks to these efforts, we are fortunate to be introduced to Picasso and visit the apartment. At this time I met Cubism and got a strong impression. Impressionists of Kuroda Seiki who finished in Paris at the Tokyo Art School have already left the tide and new paintings such as Cubism and Surrealism have been appearing.

Tsuguharu will be 30 years old and three years of promise with his father will pass. At this time I will send a letter to my father and declare that I will continue my study abroad and I will refuse remittance from my father. I decided in my heart to succeed as a painter in Paris. I divorce officially with my wife in Japan.

Art activities will be resumed in Paris in the end of the war in 1918. People gathered from Europe and Asia aiming for success. Americans who came to Paris seeking a scent of culture for the postwar economic sponsors were sponsored by many artists as wealthy people. Tsuguharu Tsuguharu Tsuguharu Tsuguharu "like the profile of Paris" said that she is "a mother becoming a mother after shaving" is like that of Paris full of such peace and affluence. Montparnasse was repeatedly irritated night by night, drags such as Hassissi were traded at the cafe and painters also said they had sucked at the studio. This will continue until the 1929 World Depression. Paris, which was later named "The Age of Frenzy" is exactly overlapping with the 1920s when Tsuguharu was in the limelight.

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