April 17, 2024
Shiro Takagi '72 Abstract Modern Japanese Woodblock Listed Japanese Artist
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Interesting color abstract Japanese woodblock print by listed Japanese artist Shiro Takagi (b. 1934). The following biography is from the Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints: The artist, born in Hirosaki in Aomori Prefecture, attended Musashino College of Fine Arts in Tokyo but left in 1958 because of “academic disciplines which bore no relation to the artist’s ideals… [and] the nonexistence of a print faculty.” (Petit) He studied moku hanga (woodblock prints) with Amano Kunihiro (b. 1929), but is largely self-taught.Takagi exhibited with the Nihon Hanga Kyokai and the Kokugakai artist societies and was a member of the Nihon Hanga Kyokai from 1961. His work was in numerous international competitions and he won awards from the Japan Print Association in 1960 and the Sao Paulo Biennnale in 1967.His work has been divided by commentators into two phases - before 1971 his predominant pallet was reds and ochres used primarily in abstractedlandscapes and post-1971 his work is more representational and green was added to his pallet.In commenting on the artist’s work the woodblock artist and critic Gaston Petit writes:“With the world of art spread before him, he sought a purely Japanese identification…. His patient self-training has guided him in measuring the full dimensions of a print and of all those qualities which coalesce to make
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