「ふたつの旅 青木茂 坂本繁二郎」アーティゾン美術館 "Two Journeys:Shigeru Aoki and Hanjiro Sakamoto" Artizon Museum

明治15年に久留米市で生まれ、同じ高等小学校で学び、同じ洋画塾で画家を志した二人。

生誕140年を記念して企画された展示会だが、28歳で亡くなった青木繁とパリ留学を果たして87歳まで生きた坂本繁二郎は、作風も性格も異なっている。

それでも、そのことを対比して企画するのは、必ず意識し合っていただろうからだ。

実際に能面などをお互いに題材にしていたことなどは、興味深い。

坂本繁二郎がパリ留学してから、作風が変わったことを考えると、もし青木繁が、もう少し長生きしていて、パリにでも行っていたら、どんな作品を描いていただろうかと思いを巡らしたが、歴史にifはないので、考えても仕方がないことだ。

いずれにしても、良い企画であったことは、間違いない。

Born in Kurume City in 1882, they both studied at the same high elementary school and aspired to become painters at the same Western-style painting school.

The exhibition was planned to commemorate the 140th anniversary of their births, but Shigeru Aoki, who died at the age of 28, and Shigejiro Sakamoto, who studied in Paris and lived to be 87, were different in both style and character.

Even so, the reason for planning the exhibition in contrast is that they would surely have been aware of each other's work.

It is interesting to note that they actually used each other's Noh masks and other objects as their subject matter.

Considering that Shigejiro Sakamoto's style changed after he studied in Paris, I wondered what Shigeru Aoki would have painted if he had lived a little longer and gone to Paris, but since there is no "if" in history, there is no use thinking about it.

In any case, there is no doubt that it was a good project.