Maruyama okyo biography
Maruyama okyo biography
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Maruyama Ōkyo
Japanese artist (1733–1795)
Maruyama Ōkyo | |
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| Born | Maruyama Ōkyo (1733-06-12)12 June 1733 |
| Died | 31 August 1795(1795-08-31) (aged 62) |
In this Japanese name, the surname is Maruyama.
Maruyama Ōkyo (円山 応挙, traditional characters: 圓山 應舉, June 12, 1733 – August 31, 1795), born Maruyama Masataka, was a Japanese artist active in the late 18th century.
He moved to Kyoto, during which he studied artworks from Chinese, Japanese and Western sources. A personal style of Western naturalism mixed with Eastern decorative design emerged, and Ōkyo founded the Maruyama school of painting.
Although many of his fellow artists criticized his work as too slavishly devoted to natural representation, it proved a success with laypeople.
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Early career
Ōkyo was born into a farming family in Ano-o, in present-day Kameoka, Kyoto. As a teenager, he moved to Kyoto and joined the townspeople (chōnin) class. He apprenticed for a toy shop, where he