Kambara Tai

Kambara Tai (Japanese: 神原 泰, Hepburn: Tai Kambara) (23 Februari 1899 – 28 March 1997), real name Kambara Yasushi, artist name Tai, was a Japanese poet, painter, writer, art critic and Japanese futurism pioneer.[1]

Kambara Tai
Native name
神原 泰
Born(1899-02-23)February 23, 1899
Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka
DiedMarch 28, 1997(1997-03-28) (aged 98)
Yokohama
Pen nameTai[1]
OccupationWriter, poet, art critic
LanguageJapanese
NationalityJapanese
PeriodTaishō
GenreFuturism
Literary movementAvant-garde

Life

Kambara was born in Sendai, Osaka, but his family soon moved to Tokyo. Kambara Tai started out as a poet, but then temporarily turned to painting. In 1917 he submitted his paintings for the exhibition of the artists' association Nika-kai (二 科 会). In 1920 Kambara founded the avant-garde art group "Action" (アクション, Akushon) together with Harue Koga, Kigen Nakagawa (中 川 紀元; 1892–1972), Junnosuke Yokoyama (横山 潤 之 助; 1903–1971) and others. It was part of the group "Future Wings of Art" (未来 派 美術 協会, Mirai-ha bijutsu kyōkai), abbreviated to "MAVO" (マヴォ). He then founded the art group "Sanka" (三 科) in 1925 followed by "Layout" (造形, "Zōkei"), from which he withdrew in 1927. That was also the time when he seized his painting activities.
Kambara exchanged letters with futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and wrote numerous publications about futurism. In 1990 he donated his material on Picasso and the avant-garde movement as the "Kambara Tai Library" to the Ohara Museum of Art in Kurashiki. He died as a result of heart failure on March 28, 1997, in Minami-ku, Yokohama at the age of 98. [2]

Literature

  • Japanese Modern Art: Painting from 1910 to 1970, Edition Stemmle, Zürich – New York, 1999, ISBN 3-908161-86-X

Expositions

References

  1. "Kambara, Tai, Benezit Dictionary of artists". oxfordartonline.com. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  2. "Biography Kambara Tai". tobunken.go.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 September 2020.

Ohara Museum of Art

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