Artworks

Hand

Artwork · Kōtarō Takamura · 1918 · sculpture · The National Museum of Modern Art

The best-known work of Kōtarō Takamura (1883–1956), Kōun’s son, who studied in New York, London and Paris and took Rodin as his hero; also a poet, whose essay “The Green Sun” (1910) urged artists to express their own vision. The taut flexing of the fingers is not a natural pose but an emotional state. 1 Mason 2005, p. 359, fig. 422. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.