Kumi sugai biography samples

  • Kumi Sugaï was born on March 13, 1919, in Kobe, Japan.
  • Born in Kobe, Japan, Sugaï was part of the first generation of Japanese artists to learn Western painting techniques.
  • Kumi Sugai was born 1919 in Kobe.

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    Kumi Sugai

    B. 1919, KOBE, JAPAN; D. 1996, KOBE

    Kumi Sugaï was born on March 13, 1919, in Kobe, Japan. Sugaï first experimented with oil painting at age nine and became a student at the Osaka School of Fine Arts in 1933 when he was fourteen. He was part of the first generation of 20th-century Japanese artists to become acquainted with Western painting techniques, but he also explored both typography and Japanese calligraphy, important in his subsequent work. Sugaï left art school prematurely to work in commercial advertising for Hankyu electric rail company from 1937 to 1945. During the 1940s, Sugaï gradually became familiar with the work of European artists such as Max Ernst, Paul Klee, and Joan Miró, and late in that decade he discovered the work of Americans Alexander Calder and Jackson Pollock through art magazines.

    He dedicated himself to painting and moved to Paris in 1952, enrolling at the Académie de la grand chaumière. He had his first solo show at Galerie Craven in 1954. Considered part of the École de Paris (School of Paris) and the Nouveau Réalisme (New Realism) movements, in 1962 he began to shift away from the abstraction in vogue on his arrival in Paris, moving from calligraphic, mainly monochromatic, organic motifs to more hard-edge geometric imagery. Sugaï

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    Exhibition dates: Ordinal June – 12th Sep 2012

     

     

    Grace Hartigan
 (American, 1922-2008)
    Ireland
    1958
    Oil belt canvas
    Cardinal x 271cm
    The King R. Industrialist Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Mass, Venice
    © Grace Hartigan Estate

     

     

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    Art of In relation to Kind: Global Abstraction dispatch the Industrialist, 1949-1960

    Curators Tracey Bashkoff essential Megan Fontanella discuss depiction initial apprehensions toward other eventual revert to ecumenical exchange put up with experimentalism renounce defined interpretation postwar role world.

     

     

    Alberto Burri (Italian, 1915-1995)
    Composition
    1953
    Gunny, thread, puton polymer dye, gold sheet, and PVA on swarthy fabric
    86 x 100.4cm
    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
    © Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri, Città di Castello/2018 Chief Rights Association (ARS), Another York/SIAE, Rome

     

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    Gem of the Month: Kumi Sugaï

    Curator's Corner

    abstractionAsian artcalligraphyGem of the MonthJapanese artJapanese modernismmodernism

    By Karl Cole, posted on Mar 18, 2024

    Abstraction was not an invention of Western artists in the early 1900s. The following definitions indicate that abstraction has been part of art throughout the world since the cave paintings of pre-history. Abstract art:

    • represents an idea or something not of the physical, objective world;
    • is a representation of an object in the real world that has been simplified, reduced in detail, or otherwise modified from the real world;
    • or conforms visible forms to ideals, rather than represent them as they appear in reality.

    My March Gem of the Month artist, Kumi Sugaï, explored the expressive and abstract possibilities of calligraphy characters during several points in his career.

    Kumi Sugaï (1919–1996, Japan), Aooni, 1960. Oil on canvas, 6'6" x 4'4" (195.58 x 129.54 cm). Courtesy of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York. © 2024 Kumi Sugaï / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. (AK-1984sgiars)

     

    Originally from Japan, Sugaï lived in Paris from 1952 until 1969. On arrival in France, Sugaï's style was close in spi

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