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宝塚市広報番組「知ってよ！宝塚」2023年3月号 戦後日本の美術界を代表する芸術家の一人、元永定正さんは約半世紀に渡り宝塚市に在住していました。 今回は元永さんの生誕100年を記念し、写真や作品、秘蔵のインタビュー映像などと共に、彼の生涯を紹介します。 #宝塚市　#元永定正　#芸術家　#前衛芸術　#具体美術　#アート

Gutai: Splendid Playground cocurators Ming Tiampo and Alexandra Munroe give an overview of Gutai's ideas, origins, artists, and artworks.

行政だより「ウィークリー伊賀市」 放送期間：2022年9月19日～9月25日

tonykwk39@gmail.com Motonaga Sadamasa 元永 定正 (1922-2011) Abstract Japanese Born in 1922 in Mie Prefecture, Motonaga was a member of the legendary Gutai Art Association (1954–72), which became famous for groundbreaking performance works and innovations in painting, sculpture, and installation art. He emerged at a time when a post-atomic surrealist existentialism was at the forefront of artistic development in Japan. However, Motonaga chose a different path and turned his back on the destruction wrought by the war in order to create paintings, sculptures, and performances that were fresh, jubilant, and playful. In 1954, he began employing a vocabulary of embryonic shapes, flying objects, and cartoon-like forms, modeled in heavy oil paint, that revealed his interest in children’s art, manga, and popular culture, and collapsed distinctions between high and low art. By 1957, Motonaga’s work had become more abstract and featured flowing lines and pools of brightly colored pigment poured and dripped onto the canvas. This “classic style,” which developed concurrently with Morris Louis’s Veil paintings, occupied Motonaga until the mid-1960s, when his anthropomorphic sensibility returned in paintings featuring extruded and knotted forms that were delicately modeled with airbrush. Thereafter in the 1970s, the artist’s scratchy hand-drawn forms reappeared along with the use of canned spray paint, creating a style that was fresh and raw, akin to graffiti and animation. Motonaga occupied a unique position in the Japanese art world, creating a distinct visual continuity between the artists and imagery of the immediate postwar era and the concerns that emerged in the work of contemporary painters such as Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, and beyond. Motonaga’s work has been the subject of many retrospective exhibitions, most notably at Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, 1998; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003; Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum , 2005; and Mie Prefectural Museum of Art, 2009. The first Western retrospective of Motonaga’s art will take place at the Dallas Museum of Art in 2014.

宝塚市立文化芸術センターは、前衛美術作家として国内外で高く評価されている元永定正氏の生誕100年を記念する企画展「生誕100年 元永定正のドキュメンテーションーRiding on a time machineー」を、 10月10日（月・祝）まで開催中です。 WEBページ：https://takarazuka-arts-center.jp/ 元永氏の自宅アトリエに残されていた膨大な資料の中から、絵画作品、スケッチ、写真、模型、展覧会記録、漫画や舞台イベントの実写映像まで、溢れんばかりの痕跡を展示し、まるでタイムマシーンに乗ったかのように元永氏の人生を振り返ります。 #元永定正 #宝塚市立文化芸術センター #宝塚市 #芸術の秋 #展覧会 #元永定正、生誕100年 #三重県伊賀市生まれ #前衛芸術家

★記事詳細とHD動画はこちら http://www.asahi.com/area/hyogo/articles/OSK201303040127.html 絵本「もこ　もこもこ」などで知られる現代美術家の故・元永定正さんの作品展「も～やんのいろだまてん」が３月４日、宝塚市逆瀬川１丁目のアピアホールで始まった。 ※「Channel ASAHI」にアップロードされている動画の改ざんや、朝日新聞社の許可なく商用・営利目的で利用することを禁じます。