For a Sleepless Night 1937
Kitawaki Noboru （1901-1951）
Work Descriptions
A ray of light pierces the gloomy blue darkness to reveal a mystical world. The light focuses on the henbit deadnettle, which stands out from the scene like a sacred icon. The anthropomorphic trees and stones appear to express surprise at the transformation of the green buds into pink flowers as the plant receives the light in the silence.
1937
Oil on canvas; framed
130.0 × 162.0 cm
Kitawaki Noboru
Kitawaki Noboru was born in Nagoya City. He moved to Kyoto at a young age, and studied first under Kanokogi Takeshiroand then under Tsuda Seifu. Establishing the Dokuritsu Art Research Institute of Kyoto, he vigorously expanded his activities later on forming avant-garde art organizations. Kitawaki sought a distinct surrealism in his paintings, and promoted the avant-garde art movement in Japan.
