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Jiro Yoshihara
Jirō Yoshihara (吉原 治良, Yoshihara Jirō; January 1, 1905 – February 10, 1972) was a Japanese painter, art educator, curator, and businessman.
Mainly known for his gestural abstract impasto paintings from the 1950s and Zen-painting inspired hard-edge Circles beginning in the 1960s, Yoshihara's oeuvre also encompasses drawings, murals, sculptures, calligraphy, ink wash paintings, ceramics, watercolors, and stage design.
Yoshihara was a key figure of postwar Japanese art and culture through his work as painter, art educator, promoter of the arts, and networker between the arts, commerce, and industry in the Kansai region and beyond, and, especially, as the leader of the postwar avant-garde art collective Gutai Art Association, which he co-founded in 1954. Under Yoshihara's guidance, Gutai explored radically experimental approaches, including outdoor exhibitions, performances, onstage presentations, and interactive works. Fueled by Yoshihara's global ambitions, Gutai developed artistic strategies to communicate internationally and insert themselves into a globalizing art world.
Aside from his artistic activities, Yoshihara was involved in the management and direction of his family's cooking oil business Yoshihara Oil Mill, Ltd.
Born in Osaka in 1905 as the second son of a vegetable oil wholesaler, Yoshihara grew up in the wealthy and refined cosmopolitan environment. (After his older brother's death in 1914, he became the future heir of the family business.
Yoshihara showed artistic talent and interest in painting as a child, acquiring his skill in oil painting auto-didactically. He was deeply impressed by the humanist idealism of the literary movement of Shirakabaha (White Birch Society), which also promoted post-Impressionist artists such as Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Renoir. Yoshihara attended the Kitano Secondary School in Osaka and studied commerce at the Kwansei Gakuin University's business college.
After contracting tuberculosis in 1925, Yoshihara moved to Ashiya and became acquainted with Ashiya-based artists such as the established painter Jirō Kamiyama, who taught Yoshihara about European culture and art, and Saburō Hasegawa, who became a friend and comrade-in-arms in promoting abstract art. Yoshihara later recalled that Kamiyama had told him that “originality and personality are the most important things.”
Yoshihara participated in the exhibitions of the painters’ group Sōenkai (Grass Garden Group), and in 1926 became a member of the Kwansei Gakuin University's painting club Gengetsukai (Crescent Moon Group). His first solo exhibition of oil paintings took place in 1928.
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Jiro Yoshihara
Jirō Yoshihara (吉原 治良, Yoshihara Jirō; January 1, 1905 – February 10, 1972) was a Japanese painter, art educator, curator, and businessman.
Mainly known for his gestural abstract impasto paintings from the 1950s and Zen-painting inspired hard-edge Circles beginning in the 1960s, Yoshihara's oeuvre also encompasses drawings, murals, sculptures, calligraphy, ink wash paintings, ceramics, watercolors, and stage design.
Yoshihara was a key figure of postwar Japanese art and culture through his work as painter, art educator, promoter of the arts, and networker between the arts, commerce, and industry in the Kansai region and beyond, and, especially, as the leader of the postwar avant-garde art collective Gutai Art Association, which he co-founded in 1954. Under Yoshihara's guidance, Gutai explored radically experimental approaches, including outdoor exhibitions, performances, onstage presentations, and interactive works. Fueled by Yoshihara's global ambitions, Gutai developed artistic strategies to communicate internationally and insert themselves into a globalizing art world.
Aside from his artistic activities, Yoshihara was involved in the management and direction of his family's cooking oil business Yoshihara Oil Mill, Ltd.
Born in Osaka in 1905 as the second son of a vegetable oil wholesaler, Yoshihara grew up in the wealthy and refined cosmopolitan environment. (After his older brother's death in 1914, he became the future heir of the family business.
Yoshihara showed artistic talent and interest in painting as a child, acquiring his skill in oil painting auto-didactically. He was deeply impressed by the humanist idealism of the literary movement of Shirakabaha (White Birch Society), which also promoted post-Impressionist artists such as Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Renoir. Yoshihara attended the Kitano Secondary School in Osaka and studied commerce at the Kwansei Gakuin University's business college.
After contracting tuberculosis in 1925, Yoshihara moved to Ashiya and became acquainted with Ashiya-based artists such as the established painter Jirō Kamiyama, who taught Yoshihara about European culture and art, and Saburō Hasegawa, who became a friend and comrade-in-arms in promoting abstract art. Yoshihara later recalled that Kamiyama had told him that “originality and personality are the most important things.”
Yoshihara participated in the exhibitions of the painters’ group Sōenkai (Grass Garden Group), and in 1926 became a member of the Kwansei Gakuin University's painting club Gengetsukai (Crescent Moon Group). His first solo exhibition of oil paintings took place in 1928.