{"id":85807,"date":"2018-07-19T14:23:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T13:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/ecomsite\/foujita-painting-in-the-roaring-twenties\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T15:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:59:13","slug":"foujita-painting-in-the-roaring-twenties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/foujita-painting-in-the-roaring-twenties\/","title":{"rendered":"Foujita Painting in Paris in the Roaring Twenties"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foujita –\u00a0painting in the roaring twenties<\/strong><\/h1>\n

If I had been a teacher (which I have always wanted to be \u2026), a question I would always have asked my pupils is the following: \u201cWhich artist from the early twentieth century Paris school more than any other represents the link between East and West?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Foujita
The Women of
Leonard Foujita<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The answer is easy, all the more so after having visited the exhibition \u201cFoujita, peindre dans les ann\u00e9es folles\u201d <\/b>at the Maillol Museum.<\/p>\n

It is in fact the naturalized French painter Foujita to whom the Maillol Museum dedicates a very beautiful exhibition from 7th<\/sup> March to 15th<\/sup>\u00a0July on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his death .<\/p>\n

\"Foujita
Portrait by
Leonard Foujita<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the online version of the Beaux Arts magazine<\/b>, the review about the exhibition reads as follows: \u201cHe is the most Japanese painter of the Paris school. Foujita settled in Montparnasse in 1913 and he soon became an emblematic figure of the roaring twenties\u201d.<\/i><\/p>\n

I really do not agree; first of all, how could he not be \u201cthe most Japanese painter of the Paris school\u201d<\/i> since he was born in Tokyo in 1886 and arrived in Paris only in 1913?
\nBut more importantly, what I find misleading, if not altogether erroneous, is to classify the artist as being \u201cemblematic of the roaring twenties\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Foujita
A Leonard Foujita\u2019s Double?<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is nothing \u2018roaring\u2019 about Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita.
\nHis biography indicates he was \u201cborn from a high ranking Samurai family<\/em>\u201d, and this is reflected in his art.
\nInspired by the purest classicism, he was never submerged by the impetuous wave of the avant-gardes.
\nAlthough he recognized the genius of Picasso, he never yielded in to abstract art, being always in pursuit of beauty in his own very personal way.<\/p>\n

Instead of a shallow and merry light-heartedness, what does transpire from his work is an unusually deep awareness that turns into rigour and pureness in his paintings, proof of his eastern roots that he never disavowed.<\/p>\n

\"Foujita
Laying Nude 1922
L\u00e9onard Foujita<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The magnetic \u201cNu allong\u00e8\u201d <\/b>of 1922 may be the paradigm of his production.
\nPerfect synthesis between western classicism and, as we would say today, eastern \u201cminimalism<\/i>\u201d, this painting illustrates the life of this painter, always straddling two styles, two cultures, and therefore two ways of seeing the world.<\/p>\n

\"Foujita
Maillol Museum
Leonard Foujita in Paris<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finding the right balance is never easy; the day before the outbreak of World War II, he decided to return to Japan to serve his country and thus became the official painter of the regime.
\nHowever as indicated in his biography \u201cthe horrors of the war which he witnessed in his dear homeland were unbearable for him\u201d.
\nAs a result he returned, this time definitively, to France.<\/p>\n

\"Foujita
Maillol Museum
Leonard Foujita in Paris<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He returned to Paris but he did not recognize himself in this city where Picasso, Soutine, Chagall, Braque, etc. reigned supreme.<\/p>\n

\u201dI felt my heart opening up\u201d he said when referring to his soul opening up to Jesus.
\nWith his conversion to Catholicism in 1959 his life came full circle.<\/p>\n

\"Foujita
Signature
L\u00e9onard Foujita<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The day of his baptism, in Saint Remi\u2019s basilica in Rheims, he chose his new name: Leonard in honour of Leonardo da Vinci.<\/a>
\nThe last and extreme recognition to our culture.
\nAll of us Italians are grateful to him.<\/p>\n

A very nice and complete exhibition.<\/b><\/p>\n

Worth visiting.<\/p>\n

\"Foujita
Foujita Painting in Paris in the Roaring Twenties<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘Foujita –\u00a0painting in the roaring twenties’<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Museum Maillol – Paris<\/strong><\/h5>\n
from 7th March to 15th July 2018<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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