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1929 - 2010. Known for: Paintings of stripes and colors, geometric abstraction.
Masaaki Yamada: A painter of all stripes and colors. By Matthew Larking, Special to the Japan Times, March 14, 2017. Masaaki Yamada (1929-2010) is like a mystery man of modernism. He apparently had... Read full biography
Masaaki Yamada: A painter of all stripes and colors. By Matthew Larking, Special to the Japan Times, March 14, 2017. Masaaki Yamada (1929-2010) is like a mystery man of modernism. He apparently had no specialist art training of note and is known only by a skeleton biography that is mostly blank... Read full biography
Masaaki Yamada: A painter of all stripes and colors. By Matthew Larking, Special to the Japan Times, March 14, 2017. Masaaki Yamada (1929-2010) is like a mystery man of modernism. He apparently had no specialist art training of note and is known only by a skeleton biography that is mostly blank before 1943, and patchy thereafter. Said to have begun painting from the so-called tabula rasa of bombed out World War II Tokyo, his unforgettable memories of conflict forced him into a covenant with... Read full biography
Masaaki Yamada: A painter of all stripes and colors. By Matthew Larking, Special to the Japan Times, March 14, 2017. Masaaki Yamada (1929-2010) is like a mystery man of modernism. He apparently had no specialist art training of note and is known only by a skeleton biography that is mostly blank before 1943, and patchy thereafter. Said to have begun painting from the so-called tabula rasa of bombed out World War II Tokyo, his unforgettable memories of conflict forced him into a covenant with painting in which he sought meaning and direction in a world he could control. Yamada assiduously documented his 2,281 oil paintings and 2,777 works on paper in 56 handwritten notebooks detailing his production processes from 1948 to 1972, and... Read full biography
Masaaki Yamada: A painter of all stripes and colors. By Matthew Larking, Special to the Japan Times, March 14, 2017. Masaaki Yamada (1929-2010) is like a mystery man of modernism. He apparently had no specialist art training of note and is known only by a skeleton biography that is mostly blank before 1943, and patchy thereafter. Said to have begun painting from the so-called tabula rasa of bombed out World War II Tokyo, his unforgettable memories of conflict forced him into a covenant with painting in which he sought meaning and direction in a world he could control. Yamada assiduously documented his 2,281 oil paintings and 2,777 works on paper in 56 handwritten notebooks detailing his production processes from 1948 to 1972, and photographed most of these. His cryptic but suggestive artist-statement sound bytes, stenciled on the gallery walls between works, also create a... Read full biography