Between actions & Unknown - Dallas Museum of Art

DMA is hosting a Japanese exhibition named "Between actions & Unknown"

After studying Nihonga ( Traditional Japanese style painting), Shiraga began making oil painting with his fingers and in time developed a dynamic approach with his feet. 

Rejected the use of paintbrush for more direct relation with materials "Without structure sense of color or center" 

Green Nude 

Is the first paint that you will see in the exhibition painted by fingers.

Difficult voyage , 1949 

Derived from artist dreams or inspired by reading of "Strange stories from Chinese studios" 

and influenced of surrealist painters. 

These 2 paintings were painted by the artist fingers 

Scrapbook, Esquisses , 1984

Challenging mud 

A pig picture and a video shows how the painter challenged the mud outside the museum  

                                    

           Gutai  In the aftermath of world war II, many young artists in Japan- as in Europe and the United states-  challenged themselves to rethink their inherited artistic and             political traditions. in 1945 Jiro Yoshihatra raffed a number of such artists together in the city of Ashiya to start the avant-garde group known as Gutai.It aaimed to bring "Matter to life" and liberate the indivisual therough the artistic freedom of expression.

This painting is a portrait of the French artist who introduced Gutai to West. 

The kiss