Peintures - Ikuo Hirayama - Patrimoine mondial de l UNESCO

Patrimoine monial de l'UNESCO
Ikuo Hirayama
Peintures
Hologramme
hardcover met omslag in beschermhoes
1997
144 pagina's
Engels / Frans

Ikuo Hirayama is the most celebrated contemporary artist working in the genre of Nihon-ga,or traditional Japanese painting, and his workson the Silk Road and on mankind’s outstanding cultural monuments have made his name well-knownfar beyond his native shores.
Born on a small island in the Inland Sea,Hirayama’s childhood years were almost idyllic,until the outbreak of World War II brought himface-to-face with a grimmer reality. While still aschoolboy, he was called up in 1945 to work at amunitions depot in Hiroshima, and he narrowlyescaped death when the atomic bomb was dropped.The aftereffects of the radiation sickness he sufferedwere to plague him throughout his early career.
It was this struggle with ill-health that led him todepict Buddhist themes in his painting, and theseworks not only brought him much public acclaimbut also sparked his interest in the Silk Road and theancient civilizations found there. Thus, from themid-1960s, Hirayama began almost annual pilgrim-ages to sites along the entire length of the Silk Road,from Turkey to the remote desert regions of China,sketching the people and scenes he encountered.
On these visits he was saddened by the state ofdisrepair of many of the ancient monuments, andthis fired his determination to help restore and preserve these treasures of civilization. Despite theheavy demands of his official position as the president of the Tokyo National University of Fine Artsand Music, he worked tirelessly for this cause, settingup organizations to save such sites as the ThousandBuddha Caves at Dunhuang, China, and the Buddhist complex at Angkor, Cambodia, even donatingthe money from sales of his paintings. His contributions in this field and to international culturalexchange in general have been recognized by severalgovernments.
He held prominent positions such as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, special adviser for cultural heritage, special appointed director of Tokyo National Museum, administrative director of foundation for cultural heritage and art research, and administrative director of Japan Art Academy Exhibition.
He died December 2, 2009 (in the twenty-one year of the Heisei era) at the age of 79.




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