Morita Shiryū
Morita Shiryū (June 24, 1912 – December 1, 1998) was a postwar Japanese artist who revolutionized Japanese calligraphy into a global avant-garde aesthetic.[1][2][3]
He was born in Toyooka, Hyōgo, Japan with the name Morita Kiyoshi (
He was a founding member of the Bokujinkai ('Group of People of the Ink'), an association of calligraphy artists who envisioned to bring the art of calligraphy to the position of international prominence.[2] He edited the monthly journal Bokubi (
Ryu chi Ryu (Dragon Knows Dragon) from 1964 is an example of Morita's large scale (42.8 x 86 inch) calligraphic paintings that incorporate unusual materials (aluminum flake pigment in polyvinyl acetate medium, yellow alkyd varnish on paper), and are devoid of textural meaning.[8]
References[edit]
- Bogdanova-Kummer, Eugenia, Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2020, ISBN 978-90-04-43706-7
- Bogdanova-Kummer, Eugenia, "Contested Comparisons: Franz Kline and Japanese Calligraphy", in AnnMarie Perl (ed.), In Focus: Meryon 1960–1 by Franz Kline, Tate Research Publication, 2017, accessed 26 February 2019.
- Bogdanova-Kummer, Eugenia, "Morita Shiryū: His Path to the World", in Inada Sousai (ed.), Morita Shiryū Catalogue Raisonné: 1952-1998, Kyoto, Japan: Soryusha, 2019
- Inada, Sousai (ed.), Morita Shiryū Catalogue Raisonné: 1952-1998, Kyoto, Japan: Soryusha, 2019
- Morita, Shiryū, Sho: Modern Calligraphy by Shiryu Morita, Mi Chou Gallery, New York, 1963
- Morita, Shiryū, Works of Shiryū Morita, Selected by the Artist, Bokubi Press, Tokyo, Japan, 1970
- National Gallery of Canada, Shiryu Morita: an Exhibition Selected and Organized by Tetsuo Yamada, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1969
- Salel, Stephen, "Conjuring Dragons: Morita Shiryū and the Globalization of Abstract Expressionism" in Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, ISBN 9780937426920
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ Sotheby's, Sale Number HK0773, October 01, 2017
- ^ a b "Shiryu Morita Biography". artnet. Archived from the original on Feb 27, 2019.
- ^ "
森田 子 龍 (モリタ シリュウ)とは - コトバンク" (in Japanese). kotobank. Retrieved 2017-10-26. - ^ Salel, Stephen, "Conjuring Dragons: Morita Shiryū and the Globalization of Abstract Expressionism" in Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, p. 45
- ^ Salel, Stephen, "Conjuring Dragons: Morita Shiryū and the Globalization of Abstract Expressionism" in Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, p. 41
- ^ Salel, Stephen, "Conjuring Dragons: Morita Shiryū and the Globalization of Abstract Expressionism" in Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, p. 43
- ^ Bogdanova-Kummer, Eugenia (2017). "Contested Comparisons: Franz Kline and Japanese Calligraphy – In Focus". Tate. Retrieved 2019-02-26.
- ^ Salel, Stephen, "Conjuring Dragons: Morita Shiryū and the Globalization of Abstract Expressionism" in Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, p. 41-47