Gutai group atsuko tanaka biography
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Gutai group atsuko tanaka biography
Atsuko Tanaka (artist)
Japanese artist (1932–2005)
Atsuko Tanaka (田中 敦子, Tanaka Atsuko; February 10, 1932 – December 3, 2005) was a Japanese avant-garde artist. She was a central figure of the Gutai Art Association from 1955 to 1965.
Her works have found increased curatorial and scholarly attention across the globe since the early 2000s, when she received her first museum retrospective in Ashiya, Japan, which was followed by the first retrospective abroad, in New York and Vancouver.[1][2] Her work was featured in multiple exhibitions on Gutai art in Europe and North America.[1]
Biography
Tanaka was born in Osaka, on February 10, 1932.[3] She had four older sisters and four older brothers.
She studied at the Department of Western Painting at Kyoto Municipal College of Art (now Kyoto City University of Arts) in 1950 and left to attend the Art Institute of Osaka Municipal Museum of Art from 1951.[4]
During her study at coll