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Fujiko Shiraga
Fujiko Shiraga (白髪富士子 ''Shiraga Fujiko'', born Uemura Fujiko, 1928–2015) was a Japanese avant-garde artist and one of the earliest female members of the Gutai Art Association. Active as an artist between the early 1950s and 1961, Shiraga was known for creating highly tactile artworks by pasting and creasing sheets of torn Japanese paper. Since last decade, Shiraga's works have received growing art-historical attention. Her paper works, paintings, and installations were featured in major Western exhibitions on Gutai art and two posthumous retrospectives. Biography Born in 1928, Shiraga was the second daughter of a family that ran a watch store in Osaka, Japan. She studied '' tsuzumi'' (Japanese hand drum) under the influence of her mother's interest in Noh music. Although she received little formal fine arts training, Shiraga began making art after marrying Kazuo Shiraga in 1948 at the age of 20. In 1952, She joined Zero Society (Zero-kai), an art collective founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gutai Group
The was a Japanese avant-garde artist group founded in the Hanshin region by young artists under the leadership of the painter Jirō Yoshihara in Ashiya, Japan, in 1954. The group, today one of the most internationally-recognized instances of 20th century Japanese art, is best known for the broad range of experimental art forms combining painting with performance, conceptual, interactive, site-specific, theatrical and installation artworks, which its members explored in unconventional venues such as public parks and on stage. The members’ engagement with the relationship between spirit, human body and material, often concretized in artistic methods that involved the artist’s body and violent gestures. Fueled by Yoshihara’s ambitions, global scope and strategic awareness, Gutai’s exhibitions and publications reached audiences around the world, realizing what Yoshihara called an “international common ground” of art.Ming Tiampo, ''Gutai: Decentering Modernism'', Chica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashiya City Museum Of Art And History
Ashiya may refer to: * Ashiya, Hyōgo, Japan ** Ashiya University, Hyōgo * Ashiya, Fukuoka, Japan * Ashiya, a subcaste of Charans Charan (IAST: Cāraṇ; Sanskrit: चारण; Gujarati: ચારણ; Urdu: ارڈ; IPA: cɑːrəɳə) is a caste in South Asia natively residing in the Rajasthan and Gujarat states of India, as well as the Sindh and Balochistan provinces of ... from Rajasthan, India * Mizuki Ashiya, the lead character in the manga series ''Hana-Kimi'' * Ashiya Station (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Place Of Birth Missing
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2015 Deaths
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1928 Births
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Nakanoshima Museum Of Art
is a 3 km long and 50 hectares narrow sandbank in Kita-ku, Osaka city, Japan, that divides the Kyū-Yodo into the Tosabori and Dōjima rivers. Many governmental and commercial offices (including the city hall of Osaka), museums and other cultural facilities are located on Nakanoshima. Landmarks and architecture (from east to west) * Nakanoshima Park *:Rose garden *Central Public Hall * Nakanoshima Library *City Hall *Bank of Japan Osaka branch *Nakanoshima Festival Tower (Headquarters of the Asahi Shimbun) * Nakanoshima Mitsui Building *Headquarters of Kansai Electric Power Company *Osaka University Nakanoshima Center * Rihga Royal Hotel * Nakanoshima Centre Building Cultural facilities (from east to west) * Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka * Festival Hall (Nakanoshima Festival Tower East) * National Museum of Art, Osaka * Science Museum * Osaka International Convention Center Transportation Train * Keihan Electric Railway ** Keihan Main Line: Yodoyabashi Stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Art Institute Of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago's Grant Park, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the world. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5 million people annually. Its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, is encyclopedic, and includes iconic works such as Georges Seurat's ''A Sunday on La Grande Jatte'', Pablo Picasso's ''The Old Guitarist'', Edward Hopper's '' Nighthawks'', and Grant Wood's '' American Gothic''. Its permanent collection of nearly 300,000 works of art is augmented by more than 30 special exhibitions mounted yearly that illuminate aspects of the collection and present cutting-edge curatorial and scientific research. As a research institution, the Art Institute also has a conservation and conservation science department, five conservation laboratories, and one of the largest art history and architecture libraries in the country—the Ryerson and B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fergus McCaffrey Gallery
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Amagasaki City Cultural Center
270px, Amagasaki Castle 270px, Aerial view of Amagasaki city center 270px, Amagasaki Station is an industrial city located in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 455,555 in 223812 households, and a population density of 9000 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Amagasaki is located in far southeastern Hyōgo Prefecture, next to Osaka. It has the fourth largest population in Hyōgo Prefecture after Kobe, Himeji, and Nishinomiya. Residential areas account for most of the rest of the coastal areas, industrial areas along the Meishin Expressway and JR West Fukuchiyama Line, commercial areas around Hanshin Amagasaki Station and JR JR Amagasaki Station, and its population density is the highest among municipalities in Hyogo Prefecture. Ground subsidence caused by the pumping up of groundwater by factories has reduced one-third of the city's area to sea level, causing flooding damage due to storm surges. Neighboring munic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guggenheim Museum
The Guggenheim Museums are a group of museums in different parts of the world established (or proposed to be established) by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Museums in this group include: Locations Americas * The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, New York, United States (1937–present)"Exhibition of Works Reflecting the Evolution of the Guggenheim's Collection Opens in Bilbao" artdaily.org, 2009, accessed April 18, 2012 ** The Guggenheim Museum SoHo, a branch of the Guggenheim Museum located in Manhattan's |
Parco Di Villa Ciani
Parco can refer to: * Parco, Tibet, a town in China * Parco (retailer), a chain of department stores primarily in Japan * Parco Historic District (also known as Sinclair Historic District), Sinclair, Wyoming, United States * Parco P.I., a reality television program * Pak-Arab Refinery (PARCO), an energy company in Pakistan * Jim Parco (born 1968), former United States Air Force lieutenant colonel * John Parco (born 1971), Italian-Canadian ice hockey player and coach See also * Parco is also Italian for "park A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are urban green space, green spaces set aside for recreation inside t ...". For the numerous articles on parks in Italy see: ** ** * Parc (other) * Park (other) {{Disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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