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1902 Yokohama, Japan - 1982 Tokyo, Japan. Known for: Geometric non ob-landscape painting, mural.
Kenzo Okada, born in Yokahoma, Japan in 1902 as the son of a wealthy industrialist enjoyed a privileged life in Japan. Okada attended Tokyo Fine Arts University where he painted in traditional... Read full biography
Kenzo Okada, born in Yokahoma, Japan in 1902 as the son of a wealthy industrialist enjoyed a privileged life in Japan. Okada attended Tokyo Fine Arts University where he painted in traditional realist style. Despite his parent's apprehension towards his career in art, determination brought Okada to... Read full biography
Kenzo Okada, born in Yokahoma, Japan in 1902 as the son of a wealthy industrialist enjoyed a privileged life in Japan. Okada attended Tokyo Fine Arts University where he painted in traditional realist style. Despite his parent's apprehension towards his career in art, determination brought Okada to Paris in 1924, where he studied with fellow Japanese expatriate, Tsuguji Fujita. Then in 1927, he returned to Japan to host his first one-man show, as a realist painter, at the Michido Gallery in... Read full biography
Kenzo Okada, born in Yokahoma, Japan in 1902 as the son of a wealthy industrialist enjoyed a privileged life in Japan. Okada attended Tokyo Fine Arts University where he painted in traditional realist style. Despite his parent's apprehension towards his career in art, determination brought Okada to Paris in 1924, where he studied with fellow Japanese expatriate, Tsuguji Fujita. Then in 1927, he returned to Japan to host his first one-man show, as a realist painter, at the Michido Gallery in Tokyo. He also painted murals for the Hilton Hotel in Tokyo. He emigrated to the United States and arrived in New York in 1950, during the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement. His work underwent complete transformation. He became an abstract... Read full biography
Kenzo Okada, born in Yokahoma, Japan in 1902 as the son of a wealthy industrialist enjoyed a privileged life in Japan. Okada attended Tokyo Fine Arts University where he painted in traditional realist style. Despite his parent's apprehension towards his career in art, determination brought Okada to Paris in 1924, where he studied with fellow Japanese expatriate, Tsuguji Fujita. Then in 1927, he returned to Japan to host his first one-man show, as a realist painter, at the Michido Gallery in Tokyo. He also painted murals for the Hilton Hotel in Tokyo. He emigrated to the United States and arrived in New York in 1950, during the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement. His work underwent complete transformation. He became an abstract painter in the American fashion, but with an inexpressible Oriental nature, "with textures remi... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Colored Pencil
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Abstract Expressionism
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Geometric Abstraction, Linear, Grids, Hard Edge
- •New York School/Abstract Expressionism
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Oriental Influence
- •Orientalism, Orientalist
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Asia, Orient
- •Japan
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Mural Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Asian
- •Japanese
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Betty Parsons Gallery, New York City
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Salmagundi Club, New York City-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts