Abstract
The author has so far conducted continual empirical research on the practical concept of art education of Nobuo SAWANOI (1916-1990) who excelled as a painter, designer, editor, etc. mainly in the Kansai Region. The central feature of this research is analysis of SAWANOIʼs principal literary works, namely “New Picture-Oriented Play” (1956), a collection of artistic themes, and “Variety of Prints” (1960), taking the historical development of this concept into consideration. The present research uses the findings of this continual research as baseline materials and compares literary works on art education published by Saburo HASEGAWA(1906-1957), a painter considered to be SAWANOIʼs mentor, in the period of post-Second World War reconstruction with the contents of the above-mentioned literary works of SAWANOI in order to explore their relationship. As a result, these literary works of SAWANOI are found to have similarities in terms of overall ideas as well as concrete subject matters with “Study on Teaching Materials for Drawing” (1951) and “Beauty of New Forms” (1951), both published by HASEGAWA, confirming that the viewpoint of HASEGAWA is incorporated into SAWANOIʼs concept of art education.
