Morita Shiryu
Illustration — Ryu chi Ryu (Dragon Knows Dragon) by Morita Shiryū Morita Shiryū (June 24, 1912 – December 1, 1998) was a postwar Japanese artist who revolutionized Japanese calligraphy into a global avant-garde aesthetic. He was born in Toyooka, Hyōgo, Japan with the name Morita Kiyoshi (森田清). About 1925, he adopted the art name Morita Shiryū (森田子龍).
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Morita Shiryu
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- 1912 · Toyooka.
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- Japan · Empire of Japan
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- painter · calligrapher · draftsperson · graphic artist
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Illustration — Ryu chi Ryu (Dragon Knows Dragon) by Morita Shiryū Morita Shiryū (June 24, 1912 – December 1, 1998) was a postwar Japanese artist who revolutionized Japanese calligraphy into a global avant-garde aesthetic. He was born in Toyooka, Hyōgo, Japan with the name Morita Kiyoshi (森田清). About 1925, he adopted the art name Morita Shiryū (森田子龍).
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Born at Toyooka in 1912, died in Kyoto in 1999.
Work by Morita Shiryu is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Cincinnati Art Museum and Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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- 1.Sotheby's, Sale Number HK0773, October 01, 2017
- 2.Shiryu Morita Biography. artnet.
- 3.kotobank. 森田 子龍(モリタ シリュウ)とは - コトバンク.
- 4.Salel, Stephen, "Conjuring Dragons: Morita Shiryū and the Globalization of Abstract Expressionism" in Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, p. 45
- 5.Salel, Stephen, "Conjuring Dragons: Morita Shiryū and the Globalization of Abstract Expressionism" in Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, p. 41
- 6.Salel, Stephen, "Conjuring Dragons: Morita Shiryū and the Globalization of Abstract Expressionism" in Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, p. 43
- 7.Bogdanova-Kummer, Eugenia. Contested Comparisons: Franz Kline and Japanese Calligraphy – In Focus. Tate. 2017.
- 8.Salel, Stephen, "Conjuring Dragons: Morita Shiryū and the Globalization of Abstract Expressionism" in Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, p. 41-47
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