Japanese contemporary art

The Contemporary art Japan board of course underwent the majority of the influences of the world contemporary art. But the power of the Japanese traditions, the oppressive presence of a dense urban environment and the various traumatisms undergone by Japan for sixty years (demolished 1945, bombardments atomic, seisms, economic crisis, etc) have induced a production very rich, original and little known in France. Moreover the original influence of the movement of before guard Gutai, developed starting from 1956 deeply marked the contemporary art until our days.

Continuation of traditional esthetics

Many artists continue, by renewing it, the tradition of traditional Japanese arts, painting on folding screen, the prints, the Calligraphie or the Ikebana.

practical Yoshihiro Suda an original art, formed of small meticulous installations, carried out on the ground or in height. Its flowers and its sheets are made up of fine sculptures of wood of magniolias, assemblies and painted.

The traditional painting of flowers, Kimono S perdure, through artists, often of the women. Hotori and Morita have rather close styles, although different generations.

Principal artists of this tendency:

  • Miyoko Hotori (born in 1927)

  • Rieko Morita (born in 1955)

  • Isao Sugiyama (born in 1954)

The abstraction

After having belonged to the avant-garde, the abstraction became a continuous tendency of the contemporary art throughout the world.

It is represented in Japan by the artists:

  • Isamu Noguchi (born in 1904 in Los-Angeles- died in 1988). It is an artist américano-Japanese, he worked in New York, Tōkyō, Paris. Its marble sculptures are the pride of the museum of Yokohama

  • Tadaichi Ishikawa (born in 1937)

  • Kumi Sugai (born in 1919 with Kōbe-death in 1996). He worked in Paris and Tōkyō.

It was one of the leaders of the movement of Japanese avant-garde Gutai which had a world impact as from 1956.

  • Kiichi Sumikawa (born in 1931 in Tōkyō). It carves wood and metal.

Minimal art and Land art

They are represented by the artists:
  • Shiro Hayami (born in 1927), specialist in “Land-art”.
  • One Kawara (born in 1932), lives in New York and bases its work since the end of the year 1960 on the flow of time, in particular through fabrics on which figure the current date, concept which made it famous.
  • Susumu Shingu (born in 1937), lives in Sanda and works with Ōsaka, sculptor of the wind and water modeller. It carries out a great reflection as for the artist and his role for the protection of planet. Instigator of the caravan of the wind.
  • Kimio Tsuchiya (born in 1955 in Fukui), lives and works in Tōkyō carries out great sculptures minimalists or installations in the open air with rough materials.
  • Katsuhito Nishikawa (born in 1949 in Tokyo). Realize for the public space of great white sculptures existing each one in several scales.

A popular art of inspiration influenced by the video mangas and it

Bathed as of their more young age in the cartoons of television, the cartoons, the Manga S, the video games and the screen cellphones, the young Japanese are durably influenced by these images, which they then revisit with their own sensitivity.

Principal artists of this tendency:

  • Hiroshi Masuyama (born in 1943) lives in Tōkyō;

  • Yukinori Tokoro (born in 1961) lives and works with Ōsaka,

  • Akira Yamaguchi (born in 1969 in Tōkyō)

In the search of an identity…

Since their more young age, the Japanese have a uniform, that of the college, then college. Between eighteen and twenty-five years the young people have very coloured behaviors and often provocantes, but for the majority, the first employee job sounds the hour of the return to costume-dark-shirt-white salaryman and the strict tailor of the office-lady .

The artists who want to leave ordinary direct either towards the provocation, or towards the dream, or still in an exaggeration of the banality of their environment.

Principal artists of this tendency:

  • Takanobu Kobayashi (born in 1960) lives in Tōkyō

Omnipresence of the city and the technique

75% of the Japanese live in the large urbanized coastal plain which goes from Tōkyō to Ōsaka, the expressways pass to three meters of the roof temples.

Television, High speed Internet and the cellphones have a rate of diffusion among highest of the world.

All the cities are equipped with automatic teller machines of train, subway, but also of drinks, foods, cameras, toothbrushes etc

The productions of these artists are generally raw photographs and without artifices or of the acrylic resin tables, hyperrealists.

Principal artists of this tendency:

  • Naoya Hatakeyama (born in 1958 in the prefecture of Iwata)
  • Maki Miyashita (born in 1978) photographer, saw in Tōkyō
  • Daidō Moriyama (born in 1938 in Ikeda, close to Ōsaka)
  • Humiyu Kisu (born in 1958)
  • Tatsuo Miyajima (born in Tōkyō in 1957)

Source

  • initial Source: http:nezumi.dumousseau.free.fr/japon/japcontart.htm

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