Tomie Ohtake

In this Japanese name, the family name is "Ohtake".
Tomie Ohtake

Photograph of Tomie Ohtake holding in her hands the Brazilian Order of Cultural Merit.

Tomie Ohtake in 2006, when she was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit.
Native name 大竹富江
Born November 21, 1913
Kyoto, Japan
Died February 12, 2015 (aged 101)
São Paulo, Brazil
Nationality Japanese Brazilian
Education Keisuke Sugano (菅野圭介)
Known for Painting, drawing, printing, sculpture
Style Geometric abstraction, lyrical abstraction
Movement Abstract art
Memorial(s) Tomie Ohtake Institute
Japanese name
Kanji 大竹富江
Hiragana おおたけ とみえ

Tomie Ohtake (大竹富江 Ōtake Tomie, née Nakakubo (中久保); November 21, 1913 – February 12, 2015) was a Japanese naturalized Brazilian artist.[1] Her work includes paintings, prints and sculptures. She was one of the main representatives of informal abstractionism in Brazil.

Biography

In 1936, when she was twenty-three years old, Ohtake traveled to Brazil to visit a brother but could not return due to World War II.[2] Ohtake settled herself in São Paulo with her husband and started painting in 1951, after a visit to the studio of the painter Keisuke Sugano.[3]

She had her first exhibition in 1957, in the Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna and in 1961 she participated in the São Paulo Biennale. In 1972 she participated in the Prints section of the Venice Biennale and in 1978 of the Tokyo Biennale. She created dozens of public space sculptures from the late eighties; her work has been featured in several cities in Brazil, but especially in the state of São Paulo.

In 1988 Ohtake was awarded the Order of Rio Branco by the public sculpture commemorating the 80th anniversary of Japanese immigration in São Paulo, and in 2006 she was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit.

Tomie Ohtake was the mother of architect Ruy Ohtake.

She died on February 12, 2015 at the age of 101.[4]

Gallery

See also

References

  1. ↑ Martí, Silas (12 February 2015). "Tomie Ohtake, grande dama da arte nacional, morre aos 101 anos em SP" [Tomie Ohtake, grande dame of national art, dies aged 101 in São Paulo]. Folha de S. Paulo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Tomie Ohtake". Pitoresco (in Portuguese). Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "Ohtake, Tomie (1913)". Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural (in Portuguese). Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  4. ↑ Tomie Ohtake: Painter and sculptor who moved to Brazil, where she became noted for her public artworks

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