Hisao Dōmoto

Hisao Dōmoto ( Japanese 堂本尚郎 , Dōmoto Hisao ; born March 2, 1928 in Kyōto ; died October 4, 2013 ) was a Japanese painter of the Yōga direction during the Shōwa and early Heisei periods .

life and work

Hisao Dōmoto, nephew of the painter Dōmoto Inshō , graduated from the Kyōto Art School (京都市立美術門学校, Kyōto shiritsu bijutsu semmon gakkō) with a degree in painting in the "Japanese style" ( Nihonga ) in 1949 . In 1956 he broke away from Nihonga, the family tradition, and went to Paris. There he began a series of still decorative, light work, some with concrete content, as the picture "Chartres am Sonntag" shows. He exhibited in Paris, Rome, Barcelona and Düsseldorf, among others. - First he made a name for himself with airy, romantic calligraphy à la Zao Wou-Ki , but then looked for his own way within the framework of a concept that he called “solutions de continuité” (“solution of continuity”). His first attempts in this direction in the 1960s were extremely crude: thick masses of paint that were applied to the canvas almost completely covered the pattern that he had previously drawn on the background of the picture.

In the late 1960s, this depiction gave way to a way of using carefully executed geometric motifs with lighter colors. - In 2007 he was honored as a person with special cultural merits .

Remarks

↑ Dōmoto was initially shown in a private gallery in Düsseldorf. In 1974, at the 1974 exhibition Japan - Tradition and Present in Düsseldorf, a work by him entitled “Solution of Continuity” from 1968 was shown. It is to be assigned to the later phase of this creative period and shows a beam grid that is carefully designed.

literature

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (ed.): Hisao Domoto In: Japan - Tradition and Present. Exhibition catalog 1974.

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personal data
SURNAME	Dōmoto, Hisao
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	堂本尚郎 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese painter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 2, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kyoto
DATE OF DEATH	4th October 2013

[1] Dōmoto was initially shown in a private gallery in Düsseldorf. In 1974, at the 1974 exhibition Japan - Tradition and Present in Düsseldorf, a work by him entitled “Solution of Continuity” from 1968 was shown. It is to be assigned to the later phase of this creative period and shows a beam grid that is carefully designed.