Research on Shotaro Koyama and His Private Art School "Fudosha"

Research Project

Project/Area Number	01510035
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Fine art history
Research Institution	Ibaraki Univesity
Principal Investigator	KANEKO Kazuo Ibaraki University, Faculty of Education, Associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (70114014)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	AOKI Shigeru Atomi Women's University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (40159281)
Project Period (FY)	1989 – 1991
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 1991)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000) Fiscal Year 1991: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000) Fiscal Year 1990: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000) Fiscal Year 1989: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Keywords	Koyama Shotaro / Fudosha / Western style painting / History of art education / 吉田博
Research Abstract	In this research we took many photographs of documents, drawings and other materials of Koyama Shotaro and his private art school "Fudosha", and aimed at explicating the following points. l. Koyama's thoughts and conducts in western-style-painting movement. 2. The origin of Koyama's drawing style and its changes. 3. Koyama's way of education in "Fudosha", and changes of drawing style from Koyama to his followers. We took photographs of about 70 documents amounting to 1500 pages, and of 1000 drawings and paintings. Though analyses of all of these materials have not finished, we have found some facts like the following. l. Koyama's ideal image of a painter was a man who has tough mind and body and who is useful for a nation. 2. Koyama's drawing style changed in three stages. The first was the style following Fontanesi's one, the second was the style using thick lines, the third was the style using delicate lines. A relation between Koyama's drawings and his haiku poems ought to be analyzed. 3. Though Koyama's drawings and his followers' seem much alike, each has its own style. Subject drawing and design exercise materials in "Fudosha" were discovered in this research.