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

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to visit a brother but could not return to Japan due to the Pacific Theater of

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occurring there. Ohtake settle in

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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

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. In 1972 she participated in the Prints section of the

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and in 1978 of the

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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

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. In 1988, Ohtake was awarded the

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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

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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

References

External links

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Tomie Ohtake Institute
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Biography

Solo exhibitions

Gallery

See also

References

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