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Sōtarō Yasui (安井 曾太郎, Yasui Sōtarō, May 17, 1888 – December 14, 1955) was a Japanese painter, noted for development of yōga (Western-style) portraiture in early twentieth-century Japanese painting.
13 mag 2024 · Yasui Sōtarō (born May 17, 1888, Kyōto—died Dec. 10, 1959, Tokyo) was a Japanese painter who excelled in drawing in the Western style. He was particularly famous for his portraits. The son of a wholesale cotton-goods merchant, Yasui began to study painting in 1904 at the Shōgoin Institute of Western Art (which later became the ...
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YASUI Sotaro 1888-1955. A Western-style painter in Japan. He was active in the Showa period, called 'The Epoch of Yasui and Umehara', with his rival, UMEHARA Ryuzaburo. He made a powerful style of painting, called 'The Yasui Style', with deformations, omissions, distinctive colors.
Yasui Sōtarō 安井 曾太郎 (May 17, 1888 – December 14, 1955) Yasui Sōtarō wasone of Japan’s most respected Western-style ( yōga ) painters from the1930s through his death in 1955.
27 mag 2021 · View Sotaro Yasui’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
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17 apr 2020 · Reconciling Western style with a Japanese environment. In 1914, Yasui returned to Japan and was faced with a new challenge: to reconcile his personal style (typical of 20th-century French painting) with his environment in Japan.
After fifteen years of struggle, he achieved what came to be called the Yasui style: clean lines, lively palette, and effective use of black to highlight colors. That style began to bloom in about 1929 in his paintings of the human figure and soon appeared in his still lifes.
