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1933 Aichi Prefecture, Japan - 2014 New York City. Known for: Installation sculpture, abstraction, conceptual art.
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. On Kawara, Conceptual Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81. By ROBERTA SMITH. JULY 15, 2014. On Kawara, a Conceptual artist who... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. On Kawara, Conceptual Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81. By ROBERTA SMITH. JULY 15, 2014. On Kawara, a Conceptual artist who devoted his career to recording the passage of time as factually and self-effacingly as art would... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. On Kawara, Conceptual Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81. By ROBERTA SMITH. JULY 15, 2014. On Kawara, a Conceptual artist who devoted his career to recording the passage of time as factually and self-effacingly as art would allow, died in late June in New York City, where he had worked for 50 years. He was 81. The David Zwirner Gallery, his representative, announced the death on its website. Mr. Kawara's family declined to... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. On Kawara, Conceptual Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81. By ROBERTA SMITH. JULY 15, 2014. On Kawara, a Conceptual artist who devoted his career to recording the passage of time as factually and self-effacingly as art would allow, died in late June in New York City, where he had worked for 50 years. He was 81. The David Zwirner Gallery, his representative, announced the death on its website. Mr. Kawara's family declined to provide the date of death or the names of survivors, in keeping with his lifelong penchant for privacy. Working in painting, drawing and performance, Mr. Kawara kept himself in the background and almost never gave interviews. The rare published... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. On Kawara, Conceptual Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81. By ROBERTA SMITH. JULY 15, 2014. On Kawara, a Conceptual artist who devoted his career to recording the passage of time as factually and self-effacingly as art would allow, died in late June in New York City, where he had worked for 50 years. He was 81. The David Zwirner Gallery, his representative, announced the death on its website. Mr. Kawara's family declined to provide the date of death or the names of survivors, in keeping with his lifelong penchant for privacy. Working in painting, drawing and performance, Mr. Kawara kept himself in the background and almost never gave interviews. The rare published photographs of him showed him from the back. Toward the end of his life, he stopped attending his own openings.... Read full biography
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Keywords (22)
Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Conceptual
- •Easel Painting
- •Installation Art
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Art Subject
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
- •Mexico and/or Central America
Awards/Recognition
- •Dia Art Foundation Support
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Self Taught, Autodidact
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Asian
- •Japanese