Isamu Noguchi

Isamu Noguchi (born the November 17th 1904 - died the December 30th 1988 with Los Angeles, the United States) was an artist américano - Japanese, Sculpteur, Designer. (In Japanese イサム ・ ノグチ, its name, although Japanese, is written in katakana because of his birth in the United States).

Biography

Isamu Noguchi worked with New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Sapporo and Paris.

His/her father was the Japanese poet Yonejiro Noguchi and his mother the writer American Leonie Gilmour.

He saw his childhood with the Japan, but passes his adolescence to America. Called Sam, registered voter at 13 years under the name of his mother in a school of the Indiana, it begins studies of medicine in Columbia University, following courses of sculpture in parallel. He is graduate Door High School (the Door, Indiana) in 1922.

He creates his workshop, makes his first exposures, the continuation is a succession of voyages between the East and the Occident, in the Twenties he discovers the Western avant-garde in New York, in 1927 he works in the workshop of Constantin Brâncuşi, he also is very influenced by his training in 1930-31 of traditional Chinese painting, and as from 1935 he carries out decorations of scenes…

One finds in these creations of furniture and in particular in lamps Akari (it appears are the lamps of the fishermen of cormorant which inspired it), the influence of its work of sculptor.

Principal achievements

  • a bridge in the Park of the Peace of Hiroshima

  • Sculpture for the National First City Bank with Fort Worth, Texas
  • Sunken Gardens for the Rare Beinecke Book and Manuscript Library with Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
  • Billy Pink Sculpture Garden, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • Japanese Garden of UNESCO to Paris
  • Kodomo No Kuni, kindergarten to Tokyo, Japan
  • Dodge Fountain and Philip A. Hart Plaza with Strait, Michigan
  • The Park Moerenuma of Sapporo
  • Akari, series of paper lamps, icons of the Fifties

External bonds

  1. The Noguchi Museum

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