was a
Japanese Brazilian visual artist. Her work includes paintings, prints and sculptures. She was one of the main representatives of
informal abstractionism in Brazil.
Biography
Ohtake was born in 1913 in Kyoto. In 1936, when she was twenty-three years old, Ohtake traveled to
Brazil
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to visit a brother but could not return to
Japan due to the
Pacific Theater of
World War II
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occurring there. Ohtake settle in
São Paulo
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with her husband, her son Ruy being born there in 1938 and started painting in 1951, after a visit to the studio of the painter Keisuke Sugano.
She had her first exhibition in 1957, in the
Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna, and in 1961 she participated in the
São Paulo Biennale
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. In 1972 she participated in the Prints section of the
Venice Biennale
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and in 1978 of the
Tokyo Biennale
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. She created dozens of public space sculptures from the late eighties; her work has been featured in several cities in Brazil, but especially in the
state of São Paulo
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In 1988, Ohtake was awarded the
Order of Rio Branco
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for the public sculpture commemorating the 80th anniversary of Japanese immigration in São Paulo and in 2006 she was awarded the
Order of Cultural Merit.
Tomie Ohtake was the mother of architects
Ruy Ohtake
Ruy Ohtake (27 January 1938 — 27 November 2021) was a Brazilian architect. He was the son of artist Tomie Ohtake.
History
Son of Japanese artist Tomie Ohtake, Ruy Ohtake was known for his unusual architectural designs. Examples of his proje ...
and Ricardo Ohtake.
She died on 12 February 2015, at the age of 101. She was cremated.
Tomie Ohtake: Painter and sculptor who moved to Brazil, where she became noted for her public artworks
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Solo exhibitions
Gallery
File:Monumento Tomie Ohtake.jpg, ''Monumento Tomie Ohtake'' in Santos (2008)
File:Tomie Ohtake GUARACUÍ.jpg, ''Monumento Guaracuí'' (2002)
File:Tomie Ohtake 03.jpg, ''Sem Título'' (2008), Universidade de São Paulo
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File:Monumento Tomie Ohtake, Ipatinga MG.JPG, ''Tomie Ohtake Monument'' (2004) in Ipatinga
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, Minas Gerais.
File:Reinauguracao Monumento 80 anos da Imigração Japonesa 1.jpg, Monument in honor of 80th anniversary of Japanese Immigration (2017) on 23 May Avenue, in São Paulo
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.
See also
* List of centenarians (artists)
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External links
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Tomie Ohtake Institute
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1913 births
2015 deaths
Brazilian centenarians
Brazilian women artists
Brazilian women painters
Japanese centenarians
Japanese emigrants to Brazil
Naturalized citizens of Brazil
People from Kyoto
People from São Paulo
20th-century Brazilian painters
21st-century Brazilian painters
Women centenarians