Genichiro Inokuma (1902-1993) remained active as a painter throughout his life. During the 70 years of his career, his painting style underwent several significant changes. This exhibition will retrospectively look back on the career of Genichiro Inokuma and trace the changes in his painting style.
In the early years of his career, he mainly painted figurative paintings with human figures as motifs. After studying in Paris in his mid-30s, he was strongly influenced by Henri Matisse, and his pursuit of composition based on the balance of form and color led him to divide his paintings into smaller geometric shapes. After turning 50, Inokuma moved to the U.S., where his abstract expression quickly blossomed due to the free and untraditional atmosphere of the U.S. During his 20 years of creative activity in New York, he established his own abstract expression by depicting cities in a conceptual manner. In his later years, when he traveled between Tokyo and Hawaii, the bright Hawaiian sun brought back vivid colors and organic shapes to his paintings, and figurative forms such as faces and animals began to mix with abstract forms.
Although his painting style changed in many ways, he always had the consistent desire to create beautiful paintings that only he could create. His style changed as a result of his continuous efforts to express himself fully, while positively accepting the changes in the environment and the times with an exceptional "curiosity and honesty.