Sadamasa Motonaga was a Japanese abstract painter and a founding member of the avant-garde Gutai group ... including at Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe in 1998, Hiroshima City Museum of ...

using bright colors to create prints infused with avant-garde art influences. In the 1960s, however, he transitioned into painting and printing more geometric images of letters and directional signs.

Also featured in her other kyara-ben works were Francisco Xavier (1506-1552), the first missionary to have brought Christianity to Japan ... of art,” she said. Matsuura’s avant-garde bento ...

This group of avant-garde artists created objets d'art that deviated from traditional pottery, in the pursuit of its potential as a pure art form. Discover how tradition and innovation keep Kyoto ...

Avant-garde pianist and composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, who studied with John Cage and went on to lead Japan’s advances in ... of music as “temporal art,” or what he called “divisions ...