Shinichi sawada biography definition
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In 2013 inom curated Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan at Wellcome Collection, London. This exhibition consisted of some 300 work, created by 46 service users of Japan's social welfare system who have been diagnosed as having learning difficulties or psychiatric conditions. ‘Souzou’ fryst vatten a Japanese word that has a dual meaning depending on how it is written, 創造 signifies creation, whereas 想像, imagination. Both allude to a force bygd which new ideas are born and take form eller gestalt in the world.
Souzou was one of the three major exhibitions that took place in Europe that year which showcased the work of artists traditionally described as ‘outsider’. All three were remarkable in that they presented objects not in terms of the context in which they were made, enshrouded by the maker's biography or medical diagnoses, but as artworks in their own right, capable of saying something meaningful about human experience and the world around us.
London's Haywar
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Outsider art that comes from within
"Outsider art" is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene.
Now, though, "Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan," an exhibition on view (through June 30) at the Wellcome Collection in London, is calling attention to the innovative creations of dozens of talented, self-taught artists from a country that has long been recognized for its rich history in the fields of design and the visual arts.
Taking its title from a Japanese word that can mean either "creation" or "imagination," depending on which kanji are used to write it, "Souzou" presents more than 300 works made by 46 artists, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, textiles and ceramics. Representing a diverse range of art-making motivations, techniques and themes, it features such unusual confections as Shota Katsube's legions of miniature action figures
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John Paul Brammer
Welcome, cherished subscribers, to the Monthly Magpie, a new series in which I find something shiny out in the world and bring it back here to the nest. Last month, it was this essay on the rise of “AI sparkles.” Sometimes, I will do two a month. That’s just something you’ll have to live with.
I chose this title because, as you’re doubtlessly aware, I’m obsessed with birds, and because I wanted to acknowledge the broad variety of topics I want to write about. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I get bored pretty easily, and I think it’s prudent to bake a lack of cohesion into the project from the jump.
In folklore, the magpie is said to be attracted to all manner of precious objects and knickknacks to decorate its nest with, as it does in the popular tale, “the maid and the magpie.” This behavior has been more or less debunked by experts. To show remorse for proliferating misinformation, I’ll be ending each Monthly Magpie entry with a true corvid fact.