Museum Paper

Art 11- D10

April 2, 2013

                                    The Art of Gutai Association

                                          

                       Throught the year’s the most unique group of art that was well form and had their own way were the Gutai Art Association. In this group of people there were lots of artist involved, but the one who’s Identity came out the most for me was the work of Motonaga Sadamasa. For me painting is a way of expressing yourself. I think that is also, the art of using paint, either in a picture or as decoration or a painted picture: an oil painting. Paintings would be one of the reason why we have museum today, so that we can learn the history of painting and see how artist expressed themselves through paint back then.

                           Montonaga Sadamasa had I unique way of painting, when people saw he’s work they would be able to recognize it right away; this is called “IDENTITY”.  This painter uses the technique of water in his paintings that are different from other artist. A lot of people ask themselves why, did motonaga use water for his art and not stone. Well to be honest with all of you, one of the things that Montonaga said before dying was, that he got most of his inspiration from “Mother Nature”.

            As for my point of view if we are dealing with Mother Nature, in the word “NATURE” the thing that we most use and see is water. As we humans use water to survive every day; Motanaga also, wanted his works of painting to survive after his death and so it did, and prove of that is in the Museum of Guggenheim. In one way that these notifications  of identity differed between the work of art that I choose is that he does uses the concept of water in his painting but he does not, really pick the color of the water ; what he does illustrate in his art work is movement like the water. This would be one of the differences, between them. One way that these amazing painting overlap were the ways the colors were arranged by and also, the ways the paintings showed the movement of one color to another.

           In Sadamasa work you see, a lot of different colors, but if you look closer in to his paintings you would see that the light colors he used, he choose it because it dealt with Mother Nature. If we go deeper into the colors that he uses that are darker, if you are paying attention to his concept you can see that most of his painting with dark colors does carry the color of some different types of animals, which live in nature. His artist ways were so interesting that you can see his work of art in floors and in walls. One of his Art work stands in the floor is called the “Work Nail” this work represents for me history.  Second of his art work on wall is called “Work Green/ Red” this picture for me identifies culture.  Third of his art work is the “Oil and Gravel on Canvas” this embodies the idea of individual identity. I think that this mode of his art work embody his classification of identity, as personal and also, cultural in the way that he uses these colors, because are one of the beautiful colors that are used in japan and seen in dragons.  I would say that it also, embodies it historically because, through years of japans culture these colors has been used to paint most of japans dragons for parade.

          In Conclusion, One of the most interesting groups of art where the Gutai Association. Also, the unique way that Montonaga Sadamasa use for his art work were, the technique of water inspired by Mother Nature.

 

 

 

 CITATION

1-) Sadamasa, Motonaga. Work (Nails). 1955. Museum Guggenheim, New York. Nakatsuji Etsuko, Japan. April 2013.

2-) Sadamasa, Motonaga. Work Green/Red 999. 1959. Museum Guggenheim, New York. Nakatsuji Etsuko, Japan. April 2013.

3-) Sadamasa, Motonaga. Work Oil and Gravel on Canvas. 1963. Museum Guggenheim, New York. The rachofsky collection, Dallas. April 2013.