KISHIDA, Ryusei(1891-1929)
Sprouting Wheat
1920
Oil on canvas
37.5�~45.0cm


In 1915,Ryusei Kishida founded the sodosha,and pursued realism which is represented in the work�gSketch of the Cut�hof the following year.But his style,which changed rapidly with the hasty assimilation of European painting,already begins to shift towards a different direction in around 1920.
As this work�gSprouting Wheat�hwill eventually lead to the series �gPortrait of Reiko�hwhich made his name everlasting,it can be said that this is a landscape while at the same time being a portrait which depicts his daughter Reiko standing on a gently sloping road.
This is because the center which pulls the picture surface together is the red color of the kimono worn by the girl,and this gives certain tension to the calm spring scenery of the Shonan region.
Such kind of painting immediately had influenced on the artists that had gathered around Kishida,who was bit like the head of some religious sect.Sadao Tsubaki's�gA Road in Kugenuma�hwould not have existed if it wasn't for �gSprouting Wheat�h.(Syunro Higashi)