Shinoda Tōkō

Shinoda Tōkō ( Japanese 篠 田 桃紅 ; born March 28, 1913 in Dalian , Republic of China ) is a Japanese artist who mainly works with ink in the style of Sumi-e .

Life

Shinoda was born under the name Masuko ( 満 洲 子 , literally: " Manchurian child") in Manchuria as the daughter of a Japanese director of a tobacco factory. In 1914 the family moved back to Japan. Inspired by her father's love for calligraphy , ink work and Chinese poetry, she turned to calligraphy at the age of 6. She had her first solo exhibition in 1940 in the Kyūkyōdo Gallery in Tokyo .

After the Second World War , their style became more abstract. Using the technique of lithography, she was able to produce small series, the prints of which were often changed individually by adding strokes of color in the Sumi manner . The formats of the pictures have often become very small in recent years.

Works (selection)

• Criashing , 190 × 96 cm, ink on paper, 1960
• Journey Autumn , 69 × 139 cm, ink on paper, 1960
• Series: Unseen Forms Nos. 1–8, ink on paper, 1961
• Fountain , 161.5 × 63.5 cm, four-part umbrella, Indian ink on gold paper, 1961
• Flame , 30 × 40.5 cm, Indian ink and sumi paint on silver paper, 2003
• Tribute , 30 × 40.5 cm, ink and color on silver paper, 2003

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1954: Japanese Calligraphy , Museum of Modern Art ( MOMA ), Manhattan , New York City
• 1958: Abstract Art (group exhibition), Museum of Modern Art , Tokyo
• 1959: 4 artists in black ink , Kröller-Müller Museum , Otterlo , Netherlands
• 1961: Solo exhibition at Nitta Gallery, Tokyo
• 1961/1962: Japanese contemporary painting , Academy of Arts (Berlin) , Museum Folkwang , Essen, Städelsches Kunstinstitut , Frankfurt am Main
• 2001: Toko Shinoda Recent Works , Tokyo Humanité Gallery, Tokyo

Publications

• Sumiiro , 1978

literature

• Leopold Reidemeister: Japanese contemporary painting. Berlin 1961.
• Shuji Takashina: Okada , Shinoda, and Tsukata : Three Pioneers of Abstract Painting in 20th Century Japan. Phillips Collection , Washington, DC 1979.
• Sumi: Shinoda Tōkō hen , Sakunhinsha, Tōkyō 1985, ISBN 4-87893-927-3 .

Web links

• biography
• About the artist (jap.)
• Exhibition 2001 (Japanese)

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Shinoda is the family name, Tōkō the first name.