Following is an exhibition review by Debra Belt, published in the Sacramento News, April 20, 2000. "The science of sculpture. Masatoyo Kishi at b sakata garo" . Within minutes, a deep clear bell... Read full biography
Following is an exhibition review by Debra Belt, published in the Sacramento News, April 20, 2000. "The science of sculpture. Masatoyo Kishi at b sakata garo" . Within minutes, a deep clear bell confirms this is an exceptional show. The sound leads to a slender sculpture, a steel study of... Read full biography
Following is an exhibition review by Debra Belt, published in the Sacramento News, April 20, 2000. "The science of sculpture. Masatoyo Kishi at b sakata garo" . Within minutes, a deep clear bell confirms this is an exceptional show. The sound leads to a slender sculpture, a steel study of composition, meter and balance. Water circulates through the base of Sculptural Bell and fills a delicately balanced trough. At the moment the trough is brimming with water, it then tips backward and flips a... Read full biography
Following is an exhibition review by Debra Belt, published in the Sacramento News, April 20, 2000. "The science of sculpture. Masatoyo Kishi at b sakata garo" . Within minutes, a deep clear bell confirms this is an exceptional show. The sound leads to a slender sculpture, a steel study of composition, meter and balance. Water circulates through the base of Sculptural Bell and fills a delicately balanced trough. At the moment the trough is brimming with water, it then tips backward and flips a small mallet that hits the main steel pipe in a resonant note of creative precision. The Sculptural Bell is a testimony to Masatoyo Kishi's education in physics and mathematics. "As a Japanese artist in the 1905s in Tokyo, I didn't go to art school,"... Read full biography
Following is an exhibition review by Debra Belt, published in the Sacramento News, April 20, 2000. "The science of sculpture. Masatoyo Kishi at b sakata garo" . Within minutes, a deep clear bell confirms this is an exceptional show. The sound leads to a slender sculpture, a steel study of composition, meter and balance. Water circulates through the base of Sculptural Bell and fills a delicately balanced trough. At the moment the trough is brimming with water, it then tips backward and flips a small mallet that hits the main steel pipe in a resonant note of creative precision. The Sculptural Bell is a testimony to Masatoyo Kishi's education in physics and mathematics. "As a Japanese artist in the 1905s in Tokyo, I didn't go to art school," says Kishi. "Japanese artists studied literature, economics, science; then you explored art." After his... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (5)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Views from Asian California: An Illustrated History 1920-1965
1992
Brown, Michael D
71 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History