%C2%A9 Yagi Kazuo
Vase with floral pattern, 1959
Yagi Kazuoexpand_more
Shigaraki ware; stoneware with black iron glazeexpand_more
Gift of Carol and Jeffrey Horvitzexpand_more 2015.112.7
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Yagi Kazuo was one of the great innovators of Japanese ceramics. Together with other artists who belonged to an avant-garde group called So_deisha, he successfully pushed the expressive boundaries of clay. For this dramatic vase, he applied a white slip over a underlying dark clay body. By carving through the white clay, he revealed the dark clay beneath. While this technique had long been used by potters in China, Japan and Korea, Yagi's assertively contemporary, non-representational surface patterns were surprisingly innovative at the time--and still seem fresh even today, over fifty years later.
Details
- Title
- Vase with floral pattern
- Artist Life
- 1918 - 1979
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.112.7
- Curator Approved
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