OKADA-ROOMは、佐賀県出身の日本近代洋画の巨匠・岡田三郎助(1869～1939年)を紹介する常設展示室です。

　岡田三郎助は、明治～昭和初期の日本近代洋画壇のリーダーとして活躍し、大きな功績を残した画家です。
　県立美術館では昭和58年の開館以来、近代洋画―なかでも岡田三郎助作品の収集、研究、展示を精力的に行い、その画業と人物の顕彰につとめてきました。

　現在では、晩年の傑作《裸婦》(1935年、佐賀県重要文化財)をはじめ、油彩画や岩絵具作品約30点、デッサンや資料を含めると約170点の岡田三郎助関係資料を所蔵しており、そのコレクションは質、量ともに国内を代表するものとなっています。

OKADA ROOM

The Saga Prefectural Art Museum's Okada Room is a permanent exhibit showcasing works by the Saga-born artist Okada Saburosuke(1869―1939).The Okada Room was established in 2015 specifically to display Okada's srtworks. The museum's collection houses more than 200 of these works,including oil paintings,sketches,drawings,and related documents,which are exhibited in a quarterly rotation. One of the most prominent works in the collection is NUDE(1935),an oil painting created in Okada's later years. It is often named as the artist's masterpiece,and has been designated an Important Cultural Property by Saga Prefecture. Okada was one of the most prominent figures of the Yoga(Western-style)art movement in the early twentieth century. He hwas primarily an oil painter,but also worked in Nihonga(Japanease-style painting),printmaking,and sculpture. He was on the faculty of the Tokyo Fine Arts School(now Tokyo University of the Arts). He also served as a member og the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts and was appointed as an Imperial Household Artist to create works of srt for the Tokyo Imperial Palace and associeted residences. In 1937,he was awarded the first Order of Culture for contributions to Japanese art. Okada's atelier,an early twentieth-sentury art studio originally built in Tokyo,has been relocated to a site next to the Saga Prefectural Art Museum.

Introduction to Yoga Painting(洋画とは)

Yoga(Werstern-style painting)is a form of Japanese modern art that flourished in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The style blend Wersten influence wiht Japanese sensibilities,often using oil on canvas rather than ink and mineral pigments on paper or silk. Typical subjects include landscapes as well as poetraits,still lifes,and nudes,which were uncommon in traditional Japanese art at tha time. Soon after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, many Japanese artists traveled to Europe to study Western art. Early progenitors of the Yoga form studied under prominent European artists,mastering oil painting and returning to Japan with knowledge of popular Europian art movements of the time. Later figures in the movement,such as Okada Saburosuke(1869-1939),would develop distinctly Japanese adaptations of Western modernism in their approaches to color and atmosphere. Okada,born in Saga,Kyushu, traveled in France in 1897,studied under Raphael Collin(1850―1916),and returned to Tokyo in 1902. He became an influential figure in the YOga movement and opened the Women's Institute of Werstern Painting at his Shibuya-based atelier in 1926. The building was later relocated to and reconstructed at the Saga Prefecture Museum in 2018. As avant-garde and experimental styles gained prominence in the mid-twentieth century,the popularity of Yoga waned, but its inflience can still be seen in Japanese art today.

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