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Jan 01, 1905 Ōsaka, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan Died on 19 Feb 1972 (aged 67)
Japanese painter
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About Jiro Yoshihara
- Jiro Yoshihara (?? ??, Yoshihara Jiro, January 1, 1905 – February 19, 1972) was a Japanese painter.
- In 1954, along with Shozo Shimamoto, he co-founded the avant-garde Gutai group in Osaka.
- He was a businessman and scion of a family that owned a cooking-oil company, along with a group of young, Hanshin-region artists.
- Yoshihara had taught Western-style painting before becoming Gutai’s leader.
- Yoshihara wrote the "Gutai Manifesto" in 1956 and was the leader of the so named group of internationally acclaimed avant-garde artists representative of Japan's post-war art world.
- He worked in surrealist and abstract expressionist painting styles before turning, in his final years, to the repeated depiction of circles reminiscent of "satori," the enlightenment of Zen.
- This white circle was made by leaving the canvas unpainted while painting the background black.
- When asked about his circles, Yoshihara said that he could not manage to paint even one circle with satisfaction, an indication of the depths of his pursuit of this form.
- Indeed, no two of his circles are shaped exactly alike.
- He was the leader of the Gutai Group until his death in 1972.
