Seien Shima
Shima Seien (1892–1970) was a nihonga artist in Taishō and Shōwa Japan.
Seien Shima
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- Name
- Shima Seien
- Born
- 1892
- Died
- 5 March 1970
- Field
- Painting
- Movement
- Nihonga Shima
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- Japanese painting
- Movements
- Nihonga
- Teachers
- Kitano Tsunetomi · Noda Kyūho
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Shima Seien (1892–1970) was a nihonga artist in Taishō and Shōwa Japan.
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Seien Shima (1892–1970) was a Japanese and Japanese painter. The painter was born in Sakai.
Seien Shima was active in Japanese painting. The painter was associated with Nihonga.
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• Name — Shima Seien • Born — 1892 • Died — 5 March 1970 • Field — Painting • Movement — Nihonga Shima
Life
Life
Born Shima Seiei in Sakai in 1892, around the age of 13 she moved with her family to 島之内 in Osaka. She taught herself how to paint while assisting her brother with his work in design, going on to study with Kitano Tsunetomi and 野田九浦. Married in 1921, she moved to Manchuria in 1927, returning to Japan at the end of the war.
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Shima Seien was awarded certificates of commendation for Evening in Soemon-chō at the sixth Bunten exhibition in 1912, Festival Attire at the seventh Bunten, and Artlessness at the ninth Bunten. Her 1918 self-portrait Untitled features a facial bruise which she wrote symbolizes the many abuses routinely inflicted upon women by men and the backdrop of an unfinished painting. It is one of three of her works designated as Municipal Cultural Properties of Osaka. This work and two others by the artist, Blackened Teeth (1920) and Woman (Passion of Black Hair) (1917) were shown in Tokyo in 2021 as part of an exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo titled “Ayashii: Decadent and Grotesque Images of Beauty in Modern Japanese Art.”
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- 1.Tobunken. 5 March 1970.
- 2.Osaka City. April 2014.
- 3.Ogawa Tomoko. Tōhō Shuppan. 2006. 9784885919923.
- 4.Gordenker, Alice. Bewitching, beguiling and downright disturbing: Unconventional views of beauty in Japanese art. The Japan Times. 2021-03-19.
- 5.Larking, Matthew. A place for women. The Japan Times. 6 November 2008.
- 6.Osaka City. April 2014.
- 7.Gordenker, Alice. Bewitching, beguiling and downright disturbing: Unconventional views of beauty in Japanese art. The Japan Times. 2021-03-19.
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