Shigeru Aoki Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Shigeru Aoki
Shigeru Aoki: Life and Legacy Early Life and Training Born: July 13, 1882, in Shojima-machi Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Aoki came from an ex-samurai class family, with his father serving the Arima clan. Parallel Beginnings: He was a childhood friend and classmate of Hanjiro Sakamoto, another prominent Japanese Western-style painter. Both initially studied under Miyoshi Mori in Kurume. Despite family disapproval, Aoki le
ft home in 1899 to pursue art studies in Tokyo. He first trained with Koyama Shōtarō, a pupil of the Italian artist Antonio Fontanesi, learning Western oil painting techniques. From 1900, he became a student of Kuroda Seiki at the Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō (Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music). Artistic Style and Influences Yōga Pioneer: Aoki was a key figure in the *yōga* movement, which sought to integrate Western pai…
