Dance of the Spirit
精霊の踊り
- Birth Year
- 1922
- Death Year
- 2018
- Date
- 2001
- Technique, Material, Format
- oil and hemp cloth on plywood
- Dimension
- 194.0 x 142.0 cm
- Donor name
- Mr. Miyazaki Shin
- Category
- Oil or Other Painting by Japanese Artist
- Inventory Number
- 2002-OJ-004
Miyazaki Shin was still an art student when, in 1942, he became a soldier and was sent to China. At the end of the war he was imprisoned in Siberia for about four years. After those long years of hardship, he began painting again in the mid-1950s. After exploring various themes, from the 1990s onwards he started creating works using hemp yarn that energetically expressed his experiences during the war and in Siberia. Those painful memories not only prompted him to despair and loneliness, and to pray for the dead, but also to celebrate nature and the strength of those human beings who live within it. In this work, the first signs of spring and life after a long winter are likened to a figure of the Holy Spirit.
(KASHIWAGI Tomoh)