Profile
In this profile page, we will not only tell you about Yukio Umehara's career, but also the portrait of the artist, his style of painting, and the impression you can feel from his works.
Career
1950 |
Born in Minamiise Cho, Watarai Gun, Mie Pref. Japan |
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1978 |
Graduated from Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Japanese Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts |
1980 |
Completed Master's Program in Painting, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts |
1983 |
Mastered Credits of Doctoral Course of Art Major, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts |
1997-2004 |
Associate Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts |
2005-2018 |
Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts |
Visiting Professor, Aichi University of the Arts |
Exhibitions
1983 |
Doctoral Program Completion Works Exhibition at Shiseido Gallery |
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1985 |
Kunfukai at Gallery Kobayashi (since then exhibited up to the 10th time) |
1986 |
The 8th Shinjukai (since then exhibited up to the 10th time) |
1987 |
Yamatane Museum of Art Award Exhibition |
1988 |
The 43rd Japan Art Institute Spring Exhibition (since then exhibited every year) |
1990 |
The 75th Japan Art Institute Exhibition (since then exhibited every year) |
1991 |
Italy & France Coverage Trip |
2000 |
Solo Exhibition at Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Nagoya Mitsukoshi, and Osaka Mitsukoshi) |
2002 |
1st Kaii Higashiyama Anniversary Japanese Painting Award Exhibition |
2006 |
Tokyo University of the Arts Japanese Painting 2nd Lab "Sketching Exhibition" |
2007 |
Exhibition Japanese Painting "Now" Inten at Paris Mitsukoshi Etoile |
2008 |
Tokyo University of the Arts Japanese Painting Laboratory Exhibition "From One Site" at Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi |
2019 |
Solo Exhibition at Ueno Matsuzakaya Ueno and Nagoya Matsuzakaya |
Awards
1978 |
Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts purchased Graduation Works |
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1980 |
Graduate School, Tokyo University of the Arts purchased Completion Works |
1986 |
Excellence Award at the 5th Tokyo Central Museum Grand Prize Exhibition |
1988 |
Spring Exhibition Award at the 43rd Spring Inten |
1989 |
Encouragement Award at the 44th Spring Inten |
1990 |
Spring Exhibition Award at the 45th Spring Inten |
1991 |
Encouragement Award at the 46th Spring Inten |
1992 |
Spring Exhibition Award at the 47th Spring Inten |
1993 |
Spring Exhibition Award at the 48th Spring Inten |
2001 |
Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award at the 86th Revival Inten |
2003 |
Prime Minister's Award at the 88th Revival Inten |
Public Collection
Omishima Art Museum, Imabari City |
Portrait and Style of Painter of YUKIO UMEHARA
Japanese painter Yukio Umehara studied under the late Mr. Ikuo Hirayama and majored in Japanese painting at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Since then, he has been in the painting business for over 40 years, and has received many honors such as the Japan Art Academy Award, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award, and the Prime Minister's Award. He is working hard and will make a great contribution to the development of the Japanese painting world in the future.
Statue of YUKIO UMEHARA
Born in 1950, just after the baby boomer generation, Painter YUKIO UMEHARA is a very simple person who is naive and sincere.
Also, he goes on wandering trips mainly in Central Asia and South Asia, and likes a nomadic lifestyle that is not bound by time or place. I think
Currently, without being bound by the category of a painter, he is an artist who is working as YUKIO UMEHARA, with a view to expanding overseas in earnest. activities are starting.
What is the Painting Style of YUKIO UMEHARA?
TRUTH WORTH we got to know from Interviews
From Yukio Umehara's Portrait Painting of YUKIO UMEHARA, we can feel the emotional breath of the woman who became the model. It seems that YUKIO UMEHARA himself who draws them has a movement of emotions, and it is reflected in the emotions of the models one after another and changes. In other words, the feelings of joy, sorrow, trust, and relief that lie hidden in the depths of one's heart naturally and inevitably spring up in the course of meeting the artist and drawing them as models, and each viewer feels differently. It was an interesting interview.
Artist YUKIO UMEHARA is also characterized by many of his Portraits that target socially vulnerable people such as women, children, and the elderly. YUKIO UMEHARA says that it will be a fresh and happy shock. Children's motions, such as surprise, anxiety, defense, and escape, which tend to be perceived negatively, will change into expressions that give the painter a fresh impression from the moment he senses the painter's kindness.
Also, when he paints animals, YUKIO UMEHARA concentrates on his heart and soul, and because he is in a state of nothingness only for himself, he does not feel the emotions of animals. It was thought that as we put our hearts of gratitude into the model animal, it would be transferred to us.
In landscape painting, even if it is a scenery that you see every day, it seems that there will be a moment when it will have an impact on the painter one day. And he told me that he paints the work with soul and gratitude without erasing the emotion.
Judging from the many words that YUKIO UMEHARA, the painter who is said to be taciturn, responded to the interview, his works were born as a result of painting with gratitude for the things that impressed him, and will continue to be forever. I couldn't help but think that he was just trying to keep drawing without changing his stance.
Each of the words that painter YUKIO UMEHARA told us was completely free of embellishment. I imagined the state of starting to draw single-mindedly. I had the impression that the painter, who remembered each and every one of the impressions he had at that time, spoke softly as if he were reproducing them, and seemed to be speaking kindly to his disciples.
We live in an age of turmoil, and for ordinary people, it is a world that is really difficult to live in, where people are mentally exhausted and just spend their days trying to get by. However, the way of life of Painter YUKIO UMEHARA that I met in such a situation is an admiration of modern people who have nothing. It's a lifestyle worthy of being called The Wind of ASIA.