TOKO SHINODA - Variations of Vermillion

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TOKO SHINODA
Variations of Vermillion
2003 Exhibition Catalogue
Published:
March 18, 2003
Publisher:
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
New, Unopened
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This amazing 60 page publication contains 32 full-page color photographs of some of the important pieces of Japan’s greatest living artist.
It draws from major pieces of private and public collections.
This soft cover catalogue measures 9.5 by 11.75 inches. This publication a truly must have for any art lover as well as any devoted Shinoda follower or collector.
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About the artist
At 106, Toko Shinoda is undoubtedly one of Japan’s leading, living artists. Her international acclaim is based on her dynamic calligraphy, sumi (ink) paintings, and lithographs.
She is one of the foremost calligraphers, painters and print makers in Japan. Shinoda is the master of an intricate manner of writing tracing back 3000 years.
Executed in black with subtle tonalities of grey, her prints are composed with an elegance which cannot be improved upon. Her prints have a special originality because she usually adds a brush stroke touch of color by hand which adds drama to the inimitable balance of the composition. To do this she mixes her red, blue, or gold sumi inks from blocks that are 300 to 500 hundred years old.
This is why her works feel right at home in ultra-modern settings as well as next to 3000 year old antiquities.
Under her father’s guidance the artist first began studying calligraphy at the age of six. Even as a child she disliked the standard way of copying Japanese characters and was always searching for new expression in her work.
A two-year stay in New York in the 1950s introduced Shinoda to the abstract expressionists who influenced Shinoda to break free of tightly controlled calligraphy and instead use expansive, dynamic brush strokes.
Over the years she has walked farther and farther along the path of abstract art. Her work developed as she began to grasp a simple momentary fleeting image and quickly give it graphic life.
Shinoda’s works are in the
National Museum of Modern Art - Tokyo,
Museum of Modern Art - New York, the Guggenheim Museum – New York, British Museum – London,
Art Institute of Chicago, Singapore Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum,
the Rockefeller and Ford Foundation collections. In July of 2013, in an around the world celebration of her 100
th
birthday, the Metropolitan Art Museum purchased one of her pieces to highlight their new Japanese exhibit. Her 28-meter mural is in the Zojoji temple in Tokyo and another large piece is featured in the Japanese Embassy in Washington. In 1979, Shinoda’s talents as a writer were also recognized when she was awarded a prize by the Japan Essayist Club for her book,
The Color of Sumi
. In a 1983 issue of TIME, her trail-blazing accomplishments were proclaimed analogous to Picasso’s.