Kinichiro Ishikawa

Ishikawa Kinichiro
石川欽一郎
Born(1871-08-08)8 August 1871
Died10 September 1945(1945-09-10) (aged 74)
NationalityJapanese
EducationTokyo Telecommunications School of the Ministry of Communications
OccupationPainter
Notable workThe Old Path at Toyohara (豐原舊道)
StyleWatercolor
AwardsJiaoban Mountain Path, Xiamen, Riverside selected for the 1st Taiwan Art Exhibition; entered as works by juror

Kinichiro Ishikawa (石川 欽一郎, Ishikawa Kin'ichirō, 8 August 1871 – 10 September 1945)[1] was a Japanese painter. He taught part-time in Taiwan at the University of Taipei and as full-time instructor at the Taiwan Mandarin Institute.[2] He promoted modern western art education in Taiwan and was considered a pioneer of art education. In Taiwan, he initiated the art and culture monthly meeting and the tea party (1913–1916).[3][a] He came to Taiwan to actively promote watercolor paintings in schools and off-campus, through platforms such as the Taiwan Daily News and Taiwan Times. He published paintings and articles "The Latest Watercolor Painting Method", "Extracurricular Painting Posts", "Mountain Purple Water Ming" and directed the Seven Star Painting Society, the Taiwan Watercolor Painting Society, the Keelung Asian Painting Association, as well as school art workshops and courses for amateurs. In the 1920s Taiwan's painting circles included Lee Shih-chiao, Huang Yibin (黄奕滨), Li Mei-shu, Ni Jianghuai (倪蒋怀), Ran In-ting and Lee Tze-fan.

Ishikawa advocated for the Taiwanese government to hold a sponsored art exhibition and found the Taiwan Fine Arts Exhibition. Taiwan has a tradition of running a competitive art exhibition where Ishikawa served as an examiner. This tradition has continued for more than eighty years and is regarded as a symbol of the important work and modernization of the government's culture and art sectors.

  1. ^ Liao, Ping-hui; Wang, David Der-wei (2006-11-07). Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895–1945: History, Culture, Memory. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231510813.
  2. ^ Chow, Rey; Harootunian, Harry; Miyoshi, Masao (2007-01-24). Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History. Duke University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780822338673.
  3. ^ 林芬郁, 沈佳姍 & 蔡蕙頻 2012, p. 34.
  4. ^ 林芬郁; 沈佳姍; 蔡蕙頻 (2012). 沒有電視的年代:阿公阿嬷的生活娛樂史. 貓頭鷹出版. pp. 34–. ISBN 978-986-262-064-9.


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