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Ray Yoshida was a talented painter & collage artist, as well as an instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was a mentor to representational artists known as the Chicago Imagists of the 1960′s and 70′s (specifically The Hairy Who), who specialized in distorted, emotionally representational artwork.
collage by Ray Yoshida
collage by Ray Yoshida
Ray‘s artwork was strongly influenced by comic strips & comic books, as well as his own collection of folk art and found art. Ken Johnson, art critic for The New York Times, describes Ray Yoshida‘s collages as being created from “tiny, oddly shaped details of architecture, fabric, hairdos and other unidentifiable elements,” and went on to say that the works were “formally captivating, dreamily strange and comically absurd.”
collage by Ray Yoshida
(detail)
Ray Yoshida was born in Kauai, Hawaii in 1930 and, after spending much of his life in Chicago, returned to the islands in 2005 when his health began to fail. He remained there until his passing in early January of 2009, at the age of 78.
collage by Ray Yoshida
Ray Yoshida in his studio
Yoshida‘s enigmatic & witty works of collage art have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Phyllis Kind Gallery in Chicago & New York, and the Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York. Ray Yoshida‘s works have been exhibited in retrospectives at The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the Madison Art Center in Madison, Wisconsin. His work is also in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.
collage by Ray Yoshida
Posted by: Kenneth Rougeau Tags: Art, artistic interests, artists, artwork, banned, banned artist, Berlin, Collage, Collages, contrast structure and dimension, cut and paste, Dada, dada artist, dada movement, definition of photomontage, Design, gallows humor, hannah, Hannah HöCh, hausmann, history of photomontage, hoch, invented photo montage, Mixed Media, Music, perspective against flat surface, photo montage, photo montages, photomontage, photomontages, poetry, raoul, raoul hausmann, rough against smooth, Science, Sculpture, striking contrasts, wild personality, world war ii
Raoul Hausmann was one of the founding members of the Dada movement in Berlin. His artistic interests were varied and eclectic, including photomontage (which he claims to have invented), painting, collage, poetry, design, sculpture, a smattering of science, music, and more. Hausmann was a long-time partner to Hannah Höch, a fellow Dada artist with a passion & flair for incredible photomontages & collages.
In an article titled “Definition of Photomontage“, Hausmann explains the power and magic of photomontage is in “its contrast of structure and dimension, rough against smooth, aerial photograph against close-up, perspective against flat surface, the utmost technical flexibility and the most lucid formal dialectics are equally possible… The ability to manage the most striking contrasts, to the achievement of perfect states of equilibrium…ensures the medium a long and richly productive span of life…”
Raoul Hausmann‘s collages and montages combine a variety of mixed media & demonstrate his wild personality. “Everything he did was done with enthusiasm and often angry gallows humour,” say the fine folks at Cut And Paste, a history of photomontage.
"Art Critic" collage by Raoul Hausmann
A banned artist during World War II, Hausmann was frequently on the run & traveled extensively from Spain to Zurich, then to Prague, Paris, and finally Limoges where he settled and remained until his death in 1971.
For more artwork & information, visit
http://www.raoulhausmann.com/
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