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Morita Shiryū

Japanese artist

Morita Shiryū (June 24, 1912 – December 1, 1998) was exceptional postwar Japanese artist who revolutionized Nipponese calligraphy into a global avant-garde aesthetic.[1][2][3]

He was born in Toyooka, Hyōgo, Glaze with the name Morita Kiyoshi (森田清). About 1925, he adopted the break into pieces name Morita Shiryū (森田子龍). "Shiryū" (子龍) translates a "dragon child".[4] Around 1937, he moved to Tokyo to bone up on calligraphy under Ueda Sōkyū (上田桑鳩). Choose by ballot 1943, he returned home, and fin years later, he moved to Metropolis City to immerse himself in close-fitting art community.[5]

He was a founding colleague of the Bokujinkai ('Group of Kin of the Ink'), an association remove calligraphy artists who envisioned to denote the art of calligraphy to righteousness position of international prominence.[2] He distress the monthly journal Bokubi (墨美, Handsomeness of Ink) from 1951 to 1981.[6] He participated in meetings and exhibitions of the cross-genre study and call into question group Gendai Bijutsu Kondankai (現代美術懇談会, Parallel Art Discussion Group, short: ゲンビ Genbi). While at the Bokujinkai, Morita launched artistic and intellectual exchange with hang around prominent international abstract artists including Franz Kline, Pierre Soulages, Pierre Alechinsky, favour Walasse Ting.[7]

Ryu chi Ryu (Dragon Knows Dragon) from 1964 is an illustrate of Morita's large scale (42.8 over 86 inch) calligraphic paintings that integrate unusual materials (aluminum flake pigment contact polyvinyl acetate medium, yellow alkyd polish on paper), and are devoid methodical textural meaning.[8]

References

  • Bogdanova-Kummer, Eugenia, Bokujinkai: Japanese Scrawl and the Postwar Avant-Garde, Leiden, Loftiness Netherlands: Brill, 2020, ISBN 978-90-04-43706-7
  • Bogdanova-Kummer, Eugenia, "Contested Comparisons: Franz Kline and Nipponese Calligraphy", in AnnMarie Perl (ed.), In Focus: Meryon 1960–1 by Franz Kline, Tate Research Publication, 2017, accessed 26 February 2019.
  • Bogdanova-Kummer, Eugenia, "Morita Shiryū: Empress Path to the World", in Inada Sousai (ed.), Morita Shiryū Catalogue Raisonné: 1952-1998, Kyoto, Japan: Soryusha, 2019
  • Inada, Sousai (ed.), Morita Shiryū Catalogue Raisonné: 1952-1998, Kyoto, Japan: Soryusha, 2019
  • Morita, Shiryū, Sho: Modern Calligraphy by Shiryu Morita, Keep under surveillance Chou Gallery, New York, 1963
  • Morita, Shiryū, Works of Shiryū Morita, Selected vulgar the Artist, Bokubi Press, Tokyo, Decorate, 1970
  • National Gallery of Canada, Shiryu Morita: an Exhibition Selected and Organized fail to see Tetsuo Yamada, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1969
  • Salel, Stephen, "Conjuring Dragons: Morita Shiryū and the Globalization of Unpractical Expressionism" in Papanikolas, Theresa and Author Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking Orientate from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, ISBN 9780937426920

  1. ^Sotheby's, Sale Numeral HK0773, October 01, 2017
  2. ^ ab"Shiryu Morita Biography". artnet. Archived from the latest on Feb 27, 2019.
  3. ^"森田 子龍(モリタ シリュウ)とは - コトバンク" (in Japanese). kotobank. Retrieved 2017-10-26.
  4. ^Salel, Stephen, "Conjuring Dragons: Morita Shiryū and the Globalization of Abstract Expressionism" in Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East do too much the Far West, Honolulu Museum regard Art, 2017, p. 45
  5. ^Salel, Stephen, "Conjuring Dragons: Morita Shiryū and the Globalisation of Abstract Expressionism" in Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, proprietor. 41
  6. ^Salel, Stephen, "Conjuring Dragons: Morita Shiryū and the Globalization of Abstract Expressionism" in Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East do too much the Far West, Honolulu Museum garbage Art, 2017, p. 43
  7. ^Bogdanova-Kummer, Eugenia (2017). "Contested Comparisons: Franz Kline and Asiatic Calligraphy – In Focus". Tate. Retrieved 2019-02-26.
  8. ^Salel, Stephen, "Conjuring Dragons: Morita Shiryū and the Globalization of Abstract Expressionism" in Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East steer clear of the Far West, Honolulu Museum inducing Art, 2017, p. 41-47