Tetsumi kudo biography channel
Tetsumi Kudo was part of a generation of Japanese artists that was highly skeptical of traditional society in the wake of the events of World War II..
This long-awaited Tetsumi Kudo retrospective gathers a staggering range of works from international collections.
YOUR PORTRAIT: A TETSUMI KUDO RETROSPECTIVE
The National Museum of Art, Osaka presented an important retrospective of a major local artist, Tetsumi Kudo (), revealing a true visionary, who predicted the harmful effects of nuclear power and the alienation of human kind by machines, all subjects of a poignant reality today, particularly in Japan.
A portrait of Tetsumi Kudo, , Photo: Hiroko Kudo © ADAGP, Paris & JASPAR, Tokyo,
Born in an artistic family, Tetsumi Kudo studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts, where he much later became a teacher, in spite of his reputation as a genuine agitator.
He has been one of the leaders of the Anti-Art movement, and the notion of Anti-Art even seems to have been first formulated in reference to one of his works. The adepts of Anti-Art rejected the expressionist abstractions dominant in the s.
But the movement also corresponded to the need of the youth, who had grown up in the aftermath of the war, to engage in political and social ques