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Artist
Takeo Yamaguchi
b. 1902, Gyeongseong (Seoul), Korea / Japan · Based in Tokyo, Japan
- Tokyo Fine Arts School (1927)
- Studied in Paris under Ossip Zadkine (1931)
- Painting
- Heavy Impasto Abstraction
- Relief Painting
Takeo Yamaguchi was a pioneer of Japanese post-war non-figurative painting whose thick, sculptural impasto reliefs in ochre and reddish-black investigate tectonic weight and geometric density. Spreading oil paint like mortar across wooden panels, his reductive silhouettes established modern Japanese abstraction.
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