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1889 Okayama, Japan - 1953 New York City. Known for: Modernist figure, genre, still life and landscape painting.
A modernist painter, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, known as "Yas", combined in his figures, animals and still life elements of 19th-century folk art, Japanese motif, and modernist European and American art with a... Read full biography
A modernist painter, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, known as "Yas", combined in his figures, animals and still life elements of 19th-century folk art, Japanese motif, and modernist European and American art with a whimsical approach of his own. His work had precise draftsmanship, symbolism, decorative imagery,... Read full biography
A modernist painter, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, known as "Yas", combined in his figures, animals and still life elements of 19th-century folk art, Japanese motif, and modernist European and American art with a whimsical approach of his own. His work had precise draftsmanship, symbolism, decorative imagery, and he took real-world themes and injected them with fantasy and a tone of moodiness. Some of his work was decorative such as the Art-Deco motif wall paintings he did for the women's lounge in Radio... Read full biography
A modernist painter, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, known as "Yas", combined in his figures, animals and still life elements of 19th-century folk art, Japanese motif, and modernist European and American art with a whimsical approach of his own. His work had precise draftsmanship, symbolism, decorative imagery, and he took real-world themes and injected them with fantasy and a tone of moodiness. Some of his work was decorative such as the Art-Deco motif wall paintings he did for the women's lounge in Radio City Music Hall in New York. He was a native of Japan, born in Okayama, and attended elementary and technical schools there, studying dyeing and weaving. He came to the United States at age sixteen with his family in 1906, and they settled in Seattle... Read full biography
A modernist painter, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, known as "Yas", combined in his figures, animals and still life elements of 19th-century folk art, Japanese motif, and modernist European and American art with a whimsical approach of his own. His work had precise draftsmanship, symbolism, decorative imagery, and he took real-world themes and injected them with fantasy and a tone of moodiness. Some of his work was decorative such as the Art-Deco motif wall paintings he did for the women's lounge in Radio City Music Hall in New York. He was a native of Japan, born in Okayama, and attended elementary and technical schools there, studying dyeing and weaving. He came to the United States at age sixteen with his family in 1906, and they settled in Seattle where he worked in an office building as a porter. He attended night school at the Los Angeles Sch... Read full biography