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JIRO YOSHIHARA

Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 12, 2020
Japan's postwar aesthetics: compelling if not confusing
The NMAO attempts the difficult task of discerning the "underlying presence of Japanese aesthetics in postwar art.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 27, 2019
Tokutaro Yamamura: A gatekeeper of art history
The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art presents Tokutaro Yamamura's full collection of Japanese postwar avant-garde art collection for the first time in two decades.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 13, 2016
Jiro Yoshihara: Leader of Gutai — Seeking for the New
Sept. 17-Nov. 27
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 30, 2016
The 'informel' whirlwind that swept across Japan
Taro Okamoto's "Men Aflame" (1955) is a swirling fusion of figuration, surrealism and abstraction. The content addresses the irradiation of Japanese sailors onboard the Dai-go Fukuryu-maru by fallout from American nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll. The painting is part of the 1950s Japanese art movement known as "reportage." It was serious art — politically engaged, socially conscious and outraged.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 13, 2015
'Matsutani Currents'
Oct. 10-Dec. 6
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 28, 2013
In New York, the Guggenheim goes Gutai
By now, the looks, character and history of Gutai, the post-World War II Japanese art movement born in 1954 in Ashiya, between Osaka and Kobe, are familiar to regular viewers of modern-art exhibitions in Japan. Last summer's "Gutai: The Spirit of an Era," a survey of the movement's evolution and its participants' diverse accomplishments, which was shown at the National Art Center, Tokyo, was the largest presentation of its kind to date in Japan. Early last year, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, also included some superb Gutai works in a show of abstract paintings; in 2011, it presented a solo exhibition of founding Gutai member Atsuko Tanaka's works.

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A statue of "Dragon Ball" character Goku stands outside the offices of Bandai Namco in Tokyo. The figure is now as recognizable as such characters as Mickey Mouse and Spider-Man.
Akira Toriyama's gift to the world