#岡本太郎

[logwire]

Original illustrations by Taro Okamoto, featured in the December 1946 issue of Shinjoen.

#Taro Okamoto #岡本太郎 #新女苑 #Shinjoen #illustration #christmas #christmas party

[yuriponz]

【-岡本太郎「殺すな」意見広告-

ベトナム運動に反対する市民の運動体「ベトナムに平和を！市民連合」が、1967年ワシントンポスト紙上に掲載した反戦メッセージ広告。

「Stop the killing! Stop the Vietnam War!」のために岡本は「殺すな」の一語を揮毫した。

彼は戦後、平和教育の名のもとに戦争の主体があいまいにされていくことに度々疑問を呈している。この一語は、その問いを鋭く突きつけるものだろう。】

白く厚く覆われた雲の隙間に見えた青空

青が広がっていく予感とともに撮りました。

【-Opinion ad by Taro Okamoto, "Don't Kill!-

An anti-war message ad published in the Washington Post in 1967 by the Citizens' Coalition for Peace in Vietnam, an organization of citizens opposed to the Vietnam Movement. Citizens United Against the Vietnam Movement, published this anti-war message ad in the Washington Post in 1967.

Okamoto wrote the words "Don't kill" for "Stop the killing! Stop the Vhdtnam War!

He has often questioned the blurring of the subject of war in the name of peace education since the end of the war. This phrase is a sharp reminder of that question.】

Blue sky seen through a gap in the thick white clouds

I took this picture with the feeling that the blue would spread.

#殺すな #岡本太郎 #sky #clouds #意見広告 #stop the killing #stop the war

[markalberding]

Taro Okamoto

Exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Taro Okamoto was a prolific avant-garde artist, a trickster who forged his own path and encouraged others to do the same with his famous exclamation-cum-exhortation "art is an explosion". Completely modern in his output, he nonetheless had a deep respect for elements of traditional Japanese culture (Okinawan) and pre-historic art (Japanese Jōmon, Pre-Columbian in Mexico),which formed a basis for his practice and theorizing, for he also wrote on art a great deal, particularly focused on promoting a modern Japanese aesthetic unshackled from the wabi-sabi conventions he felt had dominated Japanese artistic creation for too long. He produced a wide variety of work in different media and placed a great deal of importance on public art.

This exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in Ueno was well mounted, the works appearing on the first of three floors in particular being very effectively presented brightly spot lit against black walls and dark carpet, which made his bold, colorful canvases really burst forth. The second and third floors took a more historical and chronological approach, ending with his last canvases in the early 1990's, including one unfinished work. The famous gigantic Myth of Tomorrow mural, painted then somehow "lost" in Mexico City in 1967, then rediscovered in Mexico 30 years later, then restored and mounted in Shibuya station in Tokyo in 2008, is represented by a large scale painted sketch. There are also a few films, one on the making of the famous Tower of the Sun for the 1970 World Expo in Osaka (and there are a couple of models of it as well), and extensive slide shows of photographs he took while researching Okinawan and pre-Columbian arts and culture.

As is often the case, while the sections had good English introductions along with the Japanese, the exhibition texts on the placards accompanying most works were exclusively in Japanese. Yes, this is Japan, and yes, if you attend a comparable exhibition in the United States or the UK, for example, there will not be Japanese explanation anywhere, but English is an international language and particularly for an artist with a global outlook like Okamoto's, one might hope for more English for the exhibition texts. Given that the museum is pretty undeniably overstaffed, with dark-suited individuals standing around doing nothing more than holding a sign or making an unnecessary announcement that someone else is also making 10 yards away (a very common sight here), some of the money used for excess staff could be used to pay a proper translator to do all of the explanatory texts (I don't want to take anyone's [part-time, contract work] job away, but the number of people is pretty ridiculous at some of these institutions). To their credit, they allowed photography, which is very often not the case at large Japanese museums.

Okamoto sold little work during his career, partly because he was in a position which made sales unnecessary, but also because he wanted to have available for display as much of his work as possible, rather than having it secreted away in the homes of collectors. Somewhat ironically for a resolutely non-commercial artist, the gift shop was larger and had a wider range of goods than I think I have ever seen at an exhibition of similar size. I assume the proceeds at least in part go the foundations running the two permanent museums housing his work in the area.

markalberding.com

#taro okamoto #modern art #japanese art #art is an explosion #tokyo metropolitan art museum #sculpture #岡本太郎

[hausuma]

日曜日は展示会 岡本太郎／大阪中之島美術館へ。

ますます岡本太郎さんの彫刻が好きになりました♪

#design #sculpture #taro okamoto #岡本太郎 #中之島美術館 #彫刻 #デザイン

[takaki2]

岡本太郎作 歓喜の鐘

割と禍々しい

#歓喜の鐘 #岡本太郎 #名古屋 #久國寺 #art #nagoya #japan

[patrone-rmx]

岡本太郎式　特撮活劇　TARO MAN

展覧会岡本太郎　大阪中之島美術館

#岡本太郎 #taro okamoto #taroman #タローマン #大阪中之島美術館

[miyoshi-iwasawa]

Osaka, Japan  2023

#岡本太郎 #tower of the sun #太陽の塔 #osaka #japan #original photography #Street Photography #2023

[udauda-diario]

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いろいろ書きたいことはある。

NHKのタローマンにハマっていた　とか

近鉄バッファローズのロゴマークのデザインが

そうであるとは知らんかった　とか

いろいろあるが、感想をまとめると

「岡本太郎 展」　ではなく

「展覧会 岡本太郎」　というところが

伝えたいことを表してるように思えた。

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#ふぉと #写真 #美術展 #art #中之島美術館 #岡本太郎 #2022 #9月

[moko1590m]

2022年10月18日(火)～12月28日(水)

(展覧会 岡本太郎｜東京都美術館から)

東京都台東区上野公園8-36

JR上野駅「公園口」より徒歩7分

東京メトロ銀座線・日比谷線上野駅「7番出口」より徒歩10分

京成電鉄京成上野駅より徒歩10分

#岡本太郎

[tantanminadesu]

大好きな岡本太郎

#岡本太郎

[summerphotowine]

太郎ズ / OKAMOT'S PASSED AWAY [Free Download] by Akihiro Masaki on

よろしくどうぞどうぞ。

#soundcloud #okamotos #岡本太郎 #japan #indie #indie music

[yuriponz]

岡本太郎展@東京都美術館

芸術は爆発だ...なんてさりげなく自然な言葉だろう

きれいなものが美しいということではない…とても舞踏的な表現だ

真剣に、命がけで遊べ…脳、身体、こころ、幽体、本体、魂　生の全てを！

Taro を観るたび教えてくれる

いつの頃からかそうなっている私に気づく

一歩ずつ、そう歩いている

Taro Okamoto Exhibition @ Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Art is an explosion

Pretty is not beautiful

Play seriously and risk your life

That's what Taro teaches me every time I see it.

I realize that I have been doing that for some time.

I am walking like that, one step at a time.

#岡本太郎 #芸術は爆発だ #真剣に、命がけで遊べ #本職？人間だ #人生即芸術 #女神像は横が美しい #太郎最後の作品 雷人 #太陽の塔の中は進化の過程

[yusix13]

TARO OKAMOTO

#岡本太郎 #taro okamoto

[moko1590]

「太陽の塔」や「明日の神話」で知られる日本を代表する芸術家、岡本太郎が若き日にパリで描いたとみられる3点の絵画が残されていたことが、太郎についての研究を行う財団などの調査で分かりました。いずれも、その存在を知られていなかった作品で、専門家は、太郎の原点を示す極めて貴重な発見だとしています。

(via 岡本太郎 若き日にパリで描いた作品か 3点の絵画が発見 | NHK | エンタメ)

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#岡本太郎

[patrone-rmx]

TAROMAN 岡本太郎式特撮活劇

タローマンスーツ

大阪中之島美術館

#岡本太郎 #taro okamoto #tower of the sun #taroman #タローマン #大阪中之島美術館

[cozy1118]

#岡本太郎 #TAROOKAMOTO #東京都美術館 #tokyometropolitanartmuseum #光る彫刻 #若い夢 #梵鐘歓喜 #犬の植木鉢 #河童像 #坐ることを拒否する椅子 #こどもの樹 #縄文人 #顔 #午後の日 (東京都美術館　Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClQ84sLvjvw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#岡本太郎 #tarookamoto #東京都美術館 #tokyometropolitanartmuseum #光る彫刻 #若い夢 #梵鐘歓喜 #犬の植木鉢 #河童像 #坐ることを拒否する椅子 #こどもの樹 #縄文人 #顔 #午後の日