Morita shiryu biography
- Morita Shiryū (June 24, 1912 – December 1, 1998) was a.
- Born in Toyooka City, Hyôgo Prefecture, Japan.
- Shiryu MORITA.
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Born in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, Morita lectured and traveled extensively throughout his life. He was a founder of the Bokujin Group in 1952, an important association of Japanese calligraphers, which ranks among the most influential and innovative of the postwar avant-garde traditional arts groups.
Morita’s works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the National Museum of Modern Art in Sydney, Australia and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. He participated twice in the Sao Paulo Biennale. In 1962 Morita helped organize ‘Schrift und Bild’ (“Writing and Image”), which was held the following year in Baden-Baden at the National Museum of Fine Arts, after which the exhibition traveled to Amsterdam. He had many solo gallery exhibitions in Kyoto, Brussels, Paris and New York.
His groundbreaking and intense style of abstracted calligraphy, motion and action with the brush are as important as the characters he chooses to paint. In The Art Institute of Ch
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Shibunkaku is pleased to announce Morita Shiryū: Bokujin, an exhibition that brings into the spotlight an artist who left his distinctive mark on modern art and irrevocably changed the landscape of Japanese postwar calligraphy.
In the early 1950s, the emerging avant-garde movement of calligraphy, incorporating inspiration from American and European abstract painting, began to garner recognition on the stages of the international art world. At the center of this unprecedented endeavor was the calligrapher Morita Shiryū, connecting East and West, and fusing the traditional art of calligraphy with modern abstract painting.
The present exhibition centers on Morita’s calligraphy from the 1960s, when he established himself as part of the international modern art world and was widely active at home and abroad, but also includes works as early as from the 1940s up to the 1980s and 1990s. We’re excited to welcome you to Morita Shiryū: Bokujin.
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Morita Shiryū
Japanese artist
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 (森田清). About 1925, he adopted the art name Morita Shiryū (森田子龍). "Shiryū" (子龍) translates a "dragon child".[4] Around 1937, he moved to Tokyo to study calligraphy under Ueda Sōkyū (上田桑鳩). In 1943, he returned home, and five years later, he moved to Kyoto City to immerse himself in its art community.[5]
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 (墨美, Beauty of Ink) from 1951 to 1981.[6] He participated in meetings and exhibitions of the cross-genre study and discussion group Gendai Bijutsu Kondankai (現代美術懇談会, Contemporary Art Discussion Group, s
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