Masamichi yoshikawa biography of william
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Masamichi Yoshikawa at Gallery Japan Art
More than in perhaps any other country in the world, the ceramic art is deeply linked to Japanese culture and is still highly valued today, e.g. in the tea ceremony. Masamichi Yoshikawa numbers among the artists who have dedicated themselves to the renewal of the ceramic art. He earned international renown primarily with his sculptural, architectural, porcelain objects, which are usually composed of porcelain cubes or plates of various thicknesses with minor irregularities expressing the philosophy that genuine beauty manifests itself only through imperfection.
Yoshikawa uses flowing and often dripping sehakujiglaze to create an additional level of visual and tactile tension. His bold, powerful and seductive objects provide ample latitude for multiple interpretations. His love of painting is expressed by drawings in cobalt blue underglaze that often appear on the vessels and sometimes even on the bottoms of his larger, nonfunctional forms.
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Anita Besson Bequest 2016
ANITA BESSON
THE DEREK WILLIAMS TRUST BEQUEST
Hans Coper Lucie Rie Michael Cardew William Staite Murray Vladimir Tsivin Ian Godfrey Ryoji Koie Shiro Tsujimura Claudi Casanovas Jacqueline Lerat Bernard Dejonghe Ewen Henderson Tatsuzo Shimaoka
Anita Besson
1933 Born Zürich, 18 September, the second daughter of Paul Besson, an agricultural engineer, and Erna, a pharmacist. The first three years of her life were spent in Majorca. 1936 The family moves to Ascona, Switzerland, to escape the Spanish Civil War. 1942 Parents divorce. Anita and her sister Miette continue to live with their mother. 1948 First visits England, staying in the home of the Raeburn family in Surrey. 1955 Graduates from The Interpreter’s School, Geneva University. 1956 Settles in England, working as a translator at the International Co-operative Alliance in London. 1961 Begins working as a Registrar at Marlborough Fine Art, where she meets many leading artists from Britain and abroad
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Miyako no Yoshika
Japanese poet and scholar
Miyako no Yoshika (都良香; 834–879) was a Japanese poet, scholar and court official active in the Heian period. He was responsible for the civil service examination of Sugawara no Michizane and later acted as one of the compilers of the Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku. Many documents prepared by him, as well as a number of his poems, were collected in a volume known as Toshi Bunshū (都氏文集), which only survives in fragments. He became the subject of a number of legends describing his encounters with supernatural beings, such as the oni of Rashōmon and the goddess Benzaiten, as well as with pursuit of immortality.
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Yoshika was a son of Miyako no Sadutsugu (都貞継) and a nephew of Miyako no Haraaka (都腹赤), an official and poet active during the reign of emperor Saga. According to Robert Borgen, Yoshika's family was "hardly eminent" overall, but his uncle served as a professor of literature from 821 to 8