![]() Despite his father's advice, in 1956 Kurosaki entered the Kyoto Institute of Technology where he studied in the Department of Design, receiving his B.A. However, his father did not encourage him to be a painter as he felt it would not provide an adequate living. Due to air raids, he was relocated to Ishiyama in Ōmi Province (current day Shiga Prefecture) and he would maintain a deep affection for this area ( see Eight Views of Ōmi below.) After the war, while still a junior high school student, his father arranged for him to study drawing and painting with Itō Tsugurō 伊藤継郎 (1907-1994), a Western-style artist. His father working for the Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd., Akira was born in Dalian, Japanese-occupied Manchuria in 1937, but returned to Japan with his mother in 1938 to live with relatives in the port town of Kobe. Continuum, Pyramid Atlantic, Innovative Prints From 1992-2007, Katherine L. His work is in the collections of the British Museum, Museum of Modern Art New York, and Tokyo’s National Museum of Modern Art, among many others. In 2008 he received the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 3rd class by the emperor. Beginning in the late 1970s Akira worked as visiting professor and artist-in-residence at various universities in the United States, Europe and Asia. He taught throughout his career, culminating in being made professor emeritus at Kyoto Seika University. He became an authority on both Japanese and Korean paper, conducted extensive research on prints and authored a variety of articles and books on printmaking. ![]() " His work, mostly abstract or semi-representational, was shown in major domestic and international exhibitions, winning numerous awards including the 1st Florence International Print Biennale Gold Award and the World Print Award for Contemporary Masters and World Print Awards (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art). He produced his first woodblock prints in 1965 and would go on to also work in silkscreen, collagraph and mixed media, creating works which express " contemporary ideas while respecting traditional Japanese materials and methods. Kurosaki Akira 黒崎彰 (January 10, 1937-May 14, 2019)Ī major figure in modern mokuhanga (woodblock prints using water-based inks), Kurosaki developed an interest in ukiyo-e prints and techniques while in college, taking pleasure in late-period Edo and Meiji period works, struck by their intense colors.
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