YOKOYAMA Junnosuke

Junnosuke Yokoyama was a painter who made his debut in the art world at an early age. In 1922, at the age of 19, he won the Chogyu Prize, the Nikaten Exhibition's equivalent of a newcomer's award. In the same year, he formed an art group called Kanbara "Action" together with young artists such as Harue Koga, Kigen Nakagawa, and Tai, who were exhibiting at the Nikaten and Chuo Art Exhibitions at the time. Two years later, in 1924, he won the Nika Prize for "Man with a Guitar. "The calm colors and large three-dimensional effect of this work seem to be primarily influenced by the neoclassical period of French painter André Derain, but the depiction of the vigorously rising white collar also seems to have been influenced by Rembrandt, and it is impossible not to sense the artist's talent in the ingenious combination of forms.