Artist: Ishida, Hideichi
Treffi: 1900
Tekniikka: Copper
Three rabbits hammered from a single copper plate, this is the graduation work of Ishida Hideichi, the master of three-dimensional sculpture using the repoussé technique. Ishida Hideichi, who first enrolled in the Tokyo Fine Arts School the year after the metal hammering department was established, taught at his alma mater for 48 years from 1905 to 1952 (as professor from 1925). According to Mitsui Aso-o, who studied under him, Ishida had a relaxed working style, but his skill at metal hammering, in which he whould beat a metal plate into all manners of shapes with a hammer or using another piece of metal, was the finest in modern times, surpassing even that of his teacher Hirata Muneyuki. His talent is already apparent in this graduation work, so much so that the Tokyo Fine Arts School, recognizing its excellence, decided to exhibit it at the San Francisco Panama Pacific exposition of 1915. Today, as over the years, many students in the metal hammering department at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, given the assignment of producing a work with an animal motif by the repoussé technique, first study this work thoroughly before starting to hammer the copper plate. Ishida Hideichi thereafter continued to be active in the Teiten, Shin-Bunten (New Ministry of Education Exhibition), and Nitten exhibitions, also serving as juror. Because the animated expression seen in this graduation work has a power that surpasses his other pieces, Rabbits is considered his masterpiece. (Writer : Hiroko Yokomizo Source : Selected Masterpieces from The University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music: Grand Opening Exhibition, The University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, 1999)
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