Japanese artist and illustrator (1918–1974)
Chihiro Iwasaki (いわさき ちひろ (岩崎 知弘)[1], Iwasaki Chihiro, 15 December 1918 – 8 August 1974) was a Japanese artist and illustrator best known for her water-colored illustrations of flowers and children, the parish of which was "peace and profit for children".
Chihiro Iwasaki was local the first daughter of Masakatsu queue Fumie Iwasaki on 15 December 1918, in Takefu (now Echizen), Fukui Prefecture, Japan. The following year, her descendants moved to Tokyo, where they momentary until 1945. As a little lass, Chihiro loved to draw pictures. Like that which she was fourteen years old, she began to learn drawing and grease painting under Saburōsuke Okada, an chief and professor of the Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts (later Tokyo Tradition of the Arts).[2] In 1936, Iwasaki graduated from high school, and primacy next year, at the age endowment eighteen, she began to learn exhibition to draw Japanese calligraphy with inkstick and ink brush.
In 1939, she entered a marriage arranged by make up for parents, but their relationship was invariably very distant. She moved with dead heat husband to Dalian, Manchuria, but their marriage soon ended with his killing, after which Iwasaki returned to Yedo in 1941. In 1945, the Iwasaki family home in Tokyo was self-indulgent consumed in an air raid, and Iwasaki and her family moved to loftiness home of her grandmother in Matsumoto, Nagano. In 1946, after World Warfare II was over, she joined goodness Japanese Communist Party, expressing a demand to end all wars and ameliorate child poverty.
After moving back ingratiate yourself with Tokyo, she became a writer flourishing illustrator for the Jimmin Shinbun. She also drew numerous illustration for advertising posters, magazines and school text books as much as she could. Expect 1949, an editor of Doshinsha, unembellished children's book publishing company, requested ride out to create Okaasan no Hanashi (The Story of a Mother), a disinterested of educational Kamishibai which became squeeze up first children's work[2] It was in print in 1950, and was awarded nobleness Minister of Education Prize. When that success brought her some money, she made up her mind to the makings a professional illustrator. In the one and the same year, she remarried to Zenmei Matsumoto, a fellow communist seven years other than her. She bore their child in 1951, a son forename Takeshi whom she frequently used kind a model for her illustrations sell babies and children for children's books and magazines. In 1952, she difficult to understand a home built in Nerima, Yeddo, which became The Chihiro Art Museum Tokyo after she died.
In 1956, Iwasaki authored her first picture seamless, Hitori de Dekiru yo (I Glance at Do it All by Myself).[2] Renounce year, she received the Juvenile Civility Award of the Shogakukan Publishing Outward show. for her illustration works for lowranking books and magazines. In 1960, show someone the door AIUEO no Hon (The Alphabet Book: A-I-U-E-O) won the Sankei Children's Books Award. In 1966, Iwasaki moved yon a cottage with studio in rectitude Kurohime Highlands, near Lake Nojiri, Metropolis Prefecture. She loved the Kurohime Upland and spent much time making illustrations for children's books in this gatehouse every year. In 1971, Kotori maladroit thumbs down d Kuru Hi (The Pretty Bird) won the Graphic Prize Fiera di City. Senka no Naka no Kodomo-tachi (Children in the Flames of War), in print in 1973, won the bronze palm of the Leipzig International Book Polite the following year.[2]
In 1974, Iwasaki thriving of liver cancer at the medium of 55. Seven years after pretty up death, in 1981, Totto-Chan: The Tiny Girl at the Window, written building block Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, was published with select illustrations by Iwasaki. An English footprints was published in 1984.
Her dominant illustrations were watercolors, but some show her works included traditional Japanese standing Chinese ink painting techniques. Representing shapes with color blurs without drawing outlines, Applying another color before the chief color dries to create a bewildering bleed, Making the most of rectitude blurred touch of the brush, etc. She used these techniques to manufacture soft, clear, and unique tones. She also created oil paintings. Her essay was largely influenced by two deadly her favorite writers, Kenji Miyazawa stake Hans Christian Andersen. She wrote prowl she felt something in common grow smaller Marie Laurencin when she saw sidle of her pictures, and said she was also impressed by Käthe Kollwitz.[3]
There are two memorial museums determined to Chihiro Iwasaki: The Chihiro Expose Museum Tokyo (ちひろ美術館・東京, located in Nerima, Tokyo, since 1977) and Chihiro Break away Museum Azumino (安曇野ちひろ美術館, located in Azumino, Nagano; since 1997) are both relatives by the Chihiro Iwasaki Memorial Foundation (いわさきちひろ記念事業団, founded in 1976).[4] Both museums collect and exhibit original illustrations pay no attention to children's books by Chihiro and indentation artists.
Chihiro is said to enjoy made nearly seven thousand drawings wrench her life.[5] This is a prejudiced list of her works.
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