__NOTOC__ (23 Februari 1899 – 28 March 1997), real name Kambara Yasushi, artist name Tai, was a

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poet, painter, writer, art critic and Japanese

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pioneer.

Life

Kambara was born in Sendai, Osaka, but his family soon moved to

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. Kambara Tai started out as a poet, but then temporarily turned to painting. In 1917 he submitted his paintings for the exhibition of the artists' association Nika-kai (二科会). In 1920 Kambara founded the

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art group "''Action''" (アクション, Akushon) together with Harue Koga, Kigen Nakagawa (中川紀元; 1892–1972), Junnosuke Yokoyama (横山潤之助; 1903–1971) and others. It was part of the group "''Future Wings of Art''" (未来派美術協会, Mirai-ha bijutsu kyōkai), abbreviated to "''MAVO''" (マヴォ). He then founded the art group "''Sanka''" (三科) in 1925 followed by "''Layout''" (造形, "''Zōkei''"), from which he withdrew in 1927. That was also the time when he seized his painting activities.
Kambara exchanged letters with

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and wrote numerous publications about futurism. In 1990 he donated his material on

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and the avant-garde movement as the "Kambara Tai Library" to the

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. He died as a result of heart failure on March 28, 1997 in

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at the age of 98.

Literature

* Japanese Modern Art: Painting from 1910 to 1970, Edition Stemmle, Zürich – New York, 1999,

Expositions

* 1917 – 4e Nika-ten, Tokyo * 1923 – Action, Tokyo, Mitsukoshi * 1925 – Sanka Society, Tokyo, Matsuzakaya * 1936 – Kayu (Friends of Painting), Tokyo, Itoya * 1986 – Japanese Avant-garde 1910–1970,

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* 1988 –

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in Japan,

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* 1992 – Abstract art in Japan 1910–1945, Tokyo,

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Museum of Art * 1993 – Japan and Europa 1543–1929,

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References

External links

Ohara Museum of Art
1899 births 1997 deaths People from Tokyo Japanese male poets 20th-century Japanese poets 20th-century Japanese male writers {{Japan-poet-stub