Kazuo Shiraga
(Japanese, 1924–2008)
Biography
Kazuo Shiraga was a Japanese artist best known for his performative painting practice. Shiraga’s gestural style was influenced by American Abstract Expressionism and indicative of his participation in the Gutai avant-garde movement. The object of Gutai was to allow action and everyday life into the creation of dynamic artworks. The artist would suspend himself over his canvases, swinging back and forth, creating marks with his feet, creating a unique texture and thickness to his abstract swirls and splatters. “I want to paint as though rushing around a battlefield, exerting myself to collapse from exhaustion,” the artist once proclaimed. Born on August 12, 1924 in Amagasaki, Japan, he graduated from the Kyoto Municipal Special School of Painting in 1948, and joined the Gutai group in 1954. In a seminal early work, Challenge to the Mud (1955), the artist explored the gesture of sculpting clay by throwing himself and contorting his semi-naked body in a pit of mud. Through the following decades, Shiraga continued to work on activating art through moving a body in space. He died on April 8, 2008 in Amagasaki, Japan. Today, the artist’s works are included in the collections of the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Hiroshima City Museum of Art, among others.
Kazuo Shiraga Artworks
.jpg "GREAT SEVEN OF CHINA (portfolio), 1993")
Kazuo Shiraga
RAI/ KEI/ HUN/ HU/ UN/ HAN/ SYUN, from..., 1990
Sale Date: July 19, 2019
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Kazuo Shiraga
Passionate Winter, from Official Arts..., 1988
Sale Date: June 26, 2019
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.jpg "明信片创作 （两张） 镜心 纸上水彩材料 ( two drawings on..., 1961")
Kazuo Shiraga
明信片创作 （两张） 镜心 纸上水彩材料 ( two drawings on..., 1961
Sale Date: April 18, 2019
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.jpg "无题 镜框 设色纸本 (Untitled)")
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