Yutaka Ohashi

Yutaka Ohashi (August 19, 1923 – July 4, 1989) was a Japanese American artist. [1]

Yutaka Ohashi
Born(1923-08-19)August 19, 1923
Hiroshima, Japan
DiedJuly 4, 1989(1989-07-04) (aged 65)
EducationTokyo University of the Arts
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Known forVisual Art
MovementAbstract Expressionism, Abstract art
Awards"Salon de Printemps" of Tokyo Award 1950,

William Paige Traveling Scholarship,
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, 1955–57, creative painting in Europe

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1959–1960, creative painting in Japan.

He studied at Tokyo University of the Arts for 3 years, under the painter Gen’ichirō Inokuma[2]. He later went to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Art

Ohashi's style is broadly included in the Abstract Expressionism movement, combined with the aesthetics of traditional Japanese art. His work, Stone garden which appears in the Guggenheim currently (2019), draws upon the idea of the Japanese rock garden.

His techniques are identified by the Guggenheim: "Ohashi was known for paintings that integrated the restrained, purposeful act of collage, adding texture and changing registers of density to large, encompassing abstract forms. He added semitransparent layers of rice paper to the foreground of his paintings and, at times, partly obscured the rice paper with layers of oil paint. This technique, combined with large swaths of negative space and occasional highlights in gold leaf, contributes to fluctuating perceptions of space within Ohashi’s compositions"[3].

gollark: I wrote the software still running at https://status.osmarks.net/ during lunchtime and a somewhat boring virtual physics lesson (and then spent a while more time debugging a weird issue with file descriptor exhaustion, but something).
gollark: Seems reasonable, they aren't very interesting a lot.
gollark: You *might* end up in a scenario where you don't want to reinstall them because you'd feel "weak" or something, but still end up suffering somewhat and not being productive due to other things.
gollark: I see.
gollark: That is... unusual logic?

References
  1. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1959). Seventy-fifth Anniversary Record. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. p. 80.
  2. "Collection Onlline: Yutaka Ohashi". The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  3. "Collection Online: Yutaka Ohashi". The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.