#takaezu

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Enter the bagpipes.

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Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within

Born in Hawaii to a Japanese émigré family, Takaezu, is a creator of worlds. From her upright cylindrical “trees” to her “moons” nestled in hammocks, her work reflects the natural universe and imagines new ones. The unseen rattles in her closed forms and the woven rugs that accompany her ceramic works add layer upon layer to her art.

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Toshiko Takaezu

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Moon 1950

Stoneware by Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011)

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Toshiko Takaezu

Makaha Blue Moon

2000s

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Toshiko Takaezu was a trailblazer in ceramic art-making during the 1970s. She is best known for creating large, closed-vessel sculptures. At the time, fellow artists expressed shock that a woman could make such large pieces, some taller than the artist herself. Takaezu merged aspects of Japanese tea ceremony, calligraphy, and American Abstract Expressionism to create a new style from these diverse art traditions. She had a long career as an artist and teacher at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Princeton University.

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 Toshiko Takaezu, Six-Windowed Piece, 1970, porcelain with matte glaze, gold luster and Plexiglas, 41⁄2 x 53⁄4 x 53⁄4 in. (11.4 x 14.6 x 14.6 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 2007.45.2

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Toshiko Takaezu (17 June 1922 – 9 March 2011)

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TOSHIKO TAKAEZU

Worlds Within

Noguchi Museum 2024

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Toshiko Takaezu (June 17, 1922 – March 9, 2011) was an American ceramic artist, painter, sculptor, and educator whose oeuvre spanned a wide range of mediums, including ceramics, weavings, bronzes, and paintings. She is noted for her pioneering work in ceramics and has played an important role in the international revival of interest in the ceramic arts. Takaezu was known for her rounded, closed ceramic forms which broke from traditions of clay as a medium for functional objects. Instead she explored clay's potential for aesthetic expression, taking on Abstract Expressionist concepts in a manner that places her work in the realm of postwar abstractionism. She is of Japanese descent and from Pepeeko, Hawaii. Via Wikipedia

Toshiko Takaezu, 17 October 1993. Barbara Yoshida

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Toshiko Takaezu, Round Closed Form, 1967, 07/18/23 #ceramics #tweedmuseum by Sharon Mollerus

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Toshiko Takaezu

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Hi wanna help with my label writing assignment?

You come across this 2 foot glazed stoneware sphere in a museum. What questions do you have?

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Toshiko Takaezu

"Green Rain"

1985