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SHINOHARA Ushio, <OIRAN>, Oil on canvas, 162×390cm, 1967
[Japan] SHINOHARA Ushio OIRAN
Shinohara was born in Tokyo in 1932. In the 1960s he contributed to the formation of the group Neo Dadaism Organizers and participated in the activities of the artistic circles surrounding the center of the White House designed by Isozaki Shin. As a result he became well known in Japan. To Shinohara, avant-garde art probably focuses on how he reproduces and applies existing avant-garde art in the copied media which has lost its effect as new media emerges. Shinohara actively used a method of copying which some might think of as plagiarism and used fluorescent paints which could come off as cheap and unrefined. Against this backdrop, Shinohara can be recognized as an artist who was the first to practice pop-art in Japan. |
