Tomie Ohtake - Abstrat - 2002
- metal engraving.
Dimensions - 98 cm X 70 cm
Tomie Ohtake (1913 to 2015)
Tomie Ohtake was a japanese naturalized Brazilian artist. She is one of the main representatives of the informal abstracionism. She was born in Kyoto, Japan. Painter, engraver and sculptor. She cames to Brazil in 1936, setting in São Paulo. She started in painting with the artist Keisuke Sugano. The following year she joined Seibi Group, attended by Manabu Mabe, Tikashi Fukushima, Flávio Shiró and Tadashi Kaminagai, among others. After a brief period of figurative art, she was defined by abstracionism. In the decade of 1980 started to use a more intense and constrasting chromatic range. Between 2009 and 2010 her sculptures reached also the gardens of the Museum of Contemporary art in Tokyo and Okinawa, in Japan. In 2012 she was invited by the Mori Museum in Tokyo to produce a public work. She continued working untill her death with 101 year, in 2015.