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Tsugouharu Foujita: A Catholic Oeuvre |
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| Matthew Larking |
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| Arguably Japan's only
painter of international repute before World War II, Tsugouharu
Foujita (Leonard Foujita, 1886-1968) criticized his pioneering
avant-garde compatriot Jiro Yoshihara's skittish borrowings
from the repertory of artistic styles as being "too
influenced by others." Yoshihara shifted from expressive
realism to Bauhaus and Russian Constructivist inspired
works, took to a neo-expressionist primitive style, and
ended up in abstraction. Foujita was just as eclectic.
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Shuhei Endo and Sou
Fujimoto: "New Geometry Architecture" |
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| Thomas Daniell |
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| The gallery in the Kirin Plaza building,
Shin Takamatsu's brooding masterpiece at the commercial
heart of Osaka, has long provided a generous and hospitable
venue for avant-garde art. In recent years, with architecture
critic and historian Taro Igarashi as part of the curatorial
team, exhibitions on avant-garde architecture have also
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