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1916 Tokyo - 1985. Known for: Painting, calligraphy.
Yuichi Inoue, who was an iconic post-war artist in the Modern Calligraphy circle in Japan, was born in Tokyo, 1916. In 1925, Yiuchi founded the Bokujinkai group, an association for the avant-garde... Read full biography
Yuichi Inoue, who was an iconic post-war artist in the Modern Calligraphy circle in Japan, was born in Tokyo, 1916. In 1925, Yiuchi founded the Bokujinkai group, an association for the avant-garde calligraphy artists. With such background, Yiuchi believed that calligraphy should be liberated from... Read full biography
Yuichi Inoue, who was an iconic post-war artist in the Modern Calligraphy circle in Japan, was born in Tokyo, 1916. In 1925, Yiuchi founded the Bokujinkai group, an association for the avant-garde calligraphy artists. With such background, Yiuchi believed that calligraphy should be liberated from its traditions and calligraphers should be more expressive unrestrictedly in the form of calligraphy while in the west the Abstract Expressionism prevailed. By then, Yiuchi created a series of... Read full biography
Yuichi Inoue, who was an iconic post-war artist in the Modern Calligraphy circle in Japan, was born in Tokyo, 1916. In 1925, Yiuchi founded the Bokujinkai group, an association for the avant-garde calligraphy artists. With such background, Yiuchi believed that calligraphy should be liberated from its traditions and calligraphers should be more expressive unrestrictedly in the form of calligraphy while in the west the Abstract Expressionism prevailed. By then, Yiuchi created a series of experimental abstract works of non-characters and replaced the traditional medium with enamel paint. However, he realized that if calligraphy abandoned the form and shape of the written characters the aesthetics of it would be lost. He therefore embraced the... Read full biography
Yuichi Inoue, who was an iconic post-war artist in the Modern Calligraphy circle in Japan, was born in Tokyo, 1916. In 1925, Yiuchi founded the Bokujinkai group, an association for the avant-garde calligraphy artists. With such background, Yiuchi believed that calligraphy should be liberated from its traditions and calligraphers should be more expressive unrestrictedly in the form of calligraphy while in the west the Abstract Expressionism prevailed. By then, Yiuchi created a series of experimental abstract works of non-characters and replaced the traditional medium with enamel paint. However, he realized that if calligraphy abandoned the form and shape of the written characters the aesthetics of it would be lost. He therefore embraced the form and shape once again developing his own language of creations. In 1957, works by different Japanese... Read full biography
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Yuichi Inoue, who was an iconic post-war artist in the Modern Calligraphy circle in Japan, was born in Tokyo, 1916. In 1925, Yiuchi founded the Bokujinkai group, an association for the avant-garde calligraphy artists. With such background, Yiuchi believed that calligraphy should be liberated from its traditions and calligraphers should be more expressive unrestrictedly in the form of calligraphy while in the west the Abstract Expressionism prevailed.
By then, Yiuchi created a series of experimental abstract works of non-characters and replaced the traditional medium with enamel paint. However, he realized that if calligraphy abandoned the form and shape of the written characters the aesthetics of it would be lost. He therefore embraced the form and shape once again developing his own language of creations.
In 1957, works by different Japanese modern calligraphers including Yiuchi’s Gutetsu, Muga and Fushigi were selected to participate the “IV BIENAL” in Museu de Arte Moderna in Sao Paulo, Brazil, one of the three largest art events in the world. In the exhibition, his works were presented together with the pieces from others prominent contemporary artists such as Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline.
Yiuchi’s works were seen in different important international exhibitions including “Japanese Calligraphy” in the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1954, the 1955 traveling exhibitions in Europe “L’encre de Chine dans la calligraphie et L’art japonais contemporains”, “50 ANS D’ART MODERNE” in Palais International des Beaux-Arts in Bruxelles, Belgium in 1958, “II Documenta, Kunst nach 1945” in Museum Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany in 1959, reflecting his prominence in the Japanese modern calligraphy world and the recognition achieved in the art world.Biography from Sotheby's London, New Bond Street
Yuichi Inoue (1916-1985) was born in Tokyo the son of an antique dealer. In 1935 he graduated from Tokyo Prefectural Aoyama Normal School (present-day Tokyo Gakugei University) and began working as an elementary school teacher at Yokogawa National School, Tokyo. In 1952 Inoue, along with four other disciples of Sokyu Ueda; Shiryu Morita (1912-1999), Eguchi Sogen (1919-) Sekiya Yoshimichi (b.1920) and Nakamura Bokushi (dates unknown), left Keiseikai to found the avant-garde calligraphy group Bokujinkai.