Japanese Academy of Arts

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The Japanese Academy of Arts

The Japanese Academy of Arts ( Japanese 日本 芸 術 院 , Nihon Geijutsuin , English Japan Art Academy ) is the most important Japanese organization for art. The academy discusses matters relating to art, advises the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology and promotes art, until 1958 also through the annual art exhibition "Nitten" ( 日 展 ). As a legal entity, the academy has a special independent status and is under the patronage of the “ Office for Cultural Affairs ”. The headquarters are in Ueno Park in Tokyo.

history

The forerunner of the Japanese Academy of Arts was the 1907 as the examination committee for fine arts ( 美術 審査 委員会 , Bijutsu Shinsa Iinkai , English Fine Arts Screening Committee ) of the Ministry of Culture. The aim was to provide quality standards and venues for art exhibitions in the Meiji period . The first exhibition, Bunten ( 文 展 ), also took place in 1907. In 1919 the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts ( 帝国 美術 院 , Teikoku Bijutsuin , English Imperial Fine Arts Academy ) was founded. The chairman of the academy was Mori Ōgai . The associated art exhibition was consequently renamed Teiten .

In 1937 the academy was reorganized and the name changed again to Imperial Academy of the Arts ( 帝国 術 術 院 , Teikoku Geijutsuin , English Imperial Art Academy ). After the Second World War in 1947, the academy was given its final, present-day name: Japanese Academy of Arts . In this context, the name of the exhibition was also changed to Nitten (abbreviation for 日本 美術展 覧 会 , Nihon bijutsu tenrankai ).

In the course of a reorganization in 1958, the academy was converted into a purely scientific and advisory non-profit organization and the organization of the art exhibition was spun off into its own partnership , the Nitten corporation.

membership

The Akademie der Künste is formally part of MEXT . It has a maximum of 120 members who are appointed for life. The academy has three main departments with a total of 16 sub-departments that are assigned to individual subject areas. Membership is for one of the subdivisions:

  • A. Fine arts
  1. Nihonga
  2. Yoga
  3. sculpture
  4. Handicrafts
  5. calligraphy
  6. architecture
  • B. Culture
  1. Prose ( 小説 ) and drama
  2. poetry
  3. Criticism and translations
  • C. Music and Drama
  1. Kabuki
  2. Bunraku (puppet show)
  3. Western music
  4. Traditional music
  5. dance
  6. play

President of the Academy

  Surname Kanji Term of office
Imperial Academy of Fine Arts
1 Mori Ōgai 森 鴎 外 1919-1922
2 Kuroda Seiki 黒 田清輝 1922-1924
3 Fukuhara Ryōjirō 福 原 鐐 二郎 1924-1931
4th Masaki Naohiko 正 木 直 彦 1931-1935
5 Shimizu Tōri 清水 澄 1935-1937
Imperial Academy of Arts
Shimizu Tōri 清水 澄 1937-1947
Academy of Arts
1 Takahashi Seiichirō 高橋 誠一郎 1948-1979
2 Arimitsu Jirō 有光 次郎 1979-1990
3 Inumaru Tadashi 犬 丸 直 1990-2004
4th Miura Shumon 三浦 朱門 2004-2014
5 Kuroi Senji 黒 井 千 次 2014 - today

Academy Awards

The academy also awards two different prizes:

Nits

The Japanese art exhibition Nitten ( 日 展 , English Japan Fine Arts Exhibition ) claims to be the largest art exhibition of its kind worldwide. Every year it attracts a large number of art lovers and art critics. Works of art from the visual arts category are exhibited in five groups: Nihonga , Yōga (Western style painting), sculpture, handicrafts and calligraphy.

Web links

See also

Remarks

  1. To art are to be counted: the fine arts, music, literature, dance and drama
  2. Short for Mombushō bijutsu tenrankai .

Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 35 ° 42 ′ 21.2 "  N , 139 ° 46 ′ 22.8"  E