Japanese, 20th century, female.
Active in the USA.
Born 1933, in Tokyo.
Painter, sculptor, performance artist.
Neo-Dadaism, Fluxus.
After settling in New York, Yoko Ono initially took an active role in the
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Ono, Yoko
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Saitō, Yoshishige
Shin’ichiro Osaki
(b Tokyo, May 4, 1904; d Yokohama, June 13, 2001).
Japanese painter and sculptor. Self-taught as an artist, in the 1920s he met David Burlyuk and others involved with such movements as Futurism, Constructivism and Dada. From 1931 Saitō concentrated on a career as an artist, initially producing Constructivist reliefs. At that time a celebrated incident occurred when he refused to exhibit pieces at the Nikakai (Second Division Society) exhibition on the grounds that his pieces were neither painting nor sculpture: he was first chosen for the Nikakai exhibition in 1936. In 1938, together with Jirō Yoshihara and Takeo Yamaguchi (1902–83), he established the ‘Room Nine Society’ (Kyūshitsukai) with artists of the Nikakai whose works tended towards abstraction. He collaborated on Toro-wood, a series of reliefs (c. 1939) destroyed in World War II (for reconstruction see 1984 exh. cat., p. 54). During the war he was persecuted by the military authorities for his avant-garde activities....
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Takamatsu, Jiro
Japanese, 20th century, male.
Born 1936, in Tokyo.
Sculptor.
Neo-Dadaism, Mono-ha (school of things), Conceptual Art.
Haireddo Senta group.
Takamatsu Jiro finished his training in the painting department at the university of fine arts in Tokyo in 1958. In 1970, he began to exhibit at the Japan Art Festival Association. In ...
