Morita Shiryū

Ryu chi Ryu (Dragon Knows Dragon) by Morita Shiryū

Morita Shiryū (June 24, 1912 - December 1, 1998) was a postwar Japanese artist who revolutionized Far Eastern calligraphy into a global avant-garde aesthetic.[1][2][3]

He was born in Toyooka, Hyōgo, Japan with the name Morita Kiyoshi (森田清). About 1925, he adopted the art name Morita Shiryū (森田子龍). "Shiryū" (子龍) translates a "dragon child".[4] Around 1937, he moved to Tokyo to study calligraphy under Ueda Sōkyū (上田桑鳩). In 1943, he returned home, and five years later, he moved to Kyoto City to immerse himself in its art community.[5]

He was a leader of the Bokujin-kai (‘Ink Human Society’), an association of calligraphic artists with whom he exhibited regularly.[6] He edited the monthly journal Bokubi (墨美, Beauty of Ink) from 1951 to 1980 and co-founded the calligraphy salon Bokujin-kai (墨人会, Society of People of Ink) in 1952.[7] Ryu chi Ryu (Dragon Knows Dragon) from 1964 is an example of the artist's large scale (42.8 x 86 inch) calligraphic paintings that incorporate unusual materials (aluminum flake pigment in polyvinyl acetate medium, yellow alkyd varnish on paper), and are devoid of textural meaning[8]

References

  • Morita, Shiryū, Sho: Modern Calligraphy by Shiryu Morita, Mi Chou Gallery, New York, 1963
  • Morita, Shiryū, Works of Shiryū Morita, Selected by the Artist, Bokubi Press, Tokyo, Japan, 1970
  • National Gallery of Canada, Shiryu Morita: an Exhibition Selected and Organized by Tetsuo Yamada, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1969
  • Salel, Stephen, "Conjuring Dragons: Morita Shiryū and the Globalization of Abstract Expressionism" in Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, ISBN 9780937426920

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Sotheby's, Sale Number HK0773, October 01, 2017
  2. ↑ Artnet
  3. ↑ "森田 子龍(モリタ シリュウ)とは - コトバンク" (in Japanese). kotobank. Retrieved 2017-10-26.
  4. ↑ Salel, Stephen, "Conjuring Dragons: Morita Shiryū and the Globalization of Abstract Expressionism" in Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, p. 45
  5. ↑ Salel, Stephen, "Conjuring Dragons: Morita Shiryū and the Globalization of Abstract Expressionism" in Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, p. 41
  6. ↑ Artnet
  7. ↑ Salel, Stephen, "Conjuring Dragons: Morita Shiryū and the Globalization of Abstract Expressionism" in Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, p. 43
  8. ↑ Salel, Stephen, "Conjuring Dragons: Morita Shiryū and the Globalization of Abstract Expressionism" in Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, p. 41-47
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