Why on Earth Does God Have to Paint? Centripetal Art
| Junko Chodos | |
|---|---|
| Born | Junko Takahashi 1939 Tokyo, Nihon |
| Nationality | Naturalized U.S. citizen |
| Education | Waseda University & Country University of New York |
| Known for | Fine art |
| Movement | Centripetal Art |
| Website | world wide web |
Junko Chodos (born 1939) is a contemporary artist born and educated in Japan and residing in the United states of america since 1968. Her works stand for a wide diversity of techniques and styles, ranging from pencil, pen, and collage, to works done with acrylic.
Chodos has had solo exhibitions featured at the Tokyo Central Museum, the Long Embankment Museum of Art, the USC Pacific Asia Museum, the Fresno Fine art Museum, the Museum of Gimmicky Religious Art in St. Louis, and numerous other museums and galleries in Japan and in the Us.[1] [ii]
Life and career [edit]
Junko Chodos was built-in Junko Takahashi in Tokyo, Japan, in 1939. Her experience during World War Two afflicted her later life and art.[iii] She grew up in a household where Shinto, Buddhism and Christianity were strong influences. She was a member of the showtime post-war generation of "commoners" allowed to attend the Gakushūin, the Purple school.[ citation needed ]
Expressionless Flower Series, No. 8, Byoobu, Pen-and-ink with wash. Permanent Collection of the Pacific Asia Museum.
Chodos studied at Tokyo's Waseda Academy from 1963-1968. She graduated with a BA in Art History and Philosophy. At Waseda, she studied under Professor Shigeo Ueda, noted translator of Martin Buber into Japanese, and took an interest in his writings of philosophy.[4]
After leaving Japan in 1968, Chodos migrated to California, calling herself a "spiritual refugee".[v] She then attended the Land University of New York, Buffalo. Later, in 1971 she married Rafael Chodos,[4] a lawyer and author in biblical studies and the aesthetics of fine art.[6]
In an article in the Winter 2003 upshot of CrossCurrents, Chodos wrote:
To seek justice, to be courageous, to exist ethical in other words, to cull rational universal standards over loyalty towards the group is to be a traitor in Japan, and these individuals interruption the biggest taboos of the totalitarian gild. I experienced these aspects of Japanese order as a class of persecution and equally a threat to my ain integrity. That is why I left Nihon and became a spiritual refugee.[7]
As Junko Chodos developed her style. she coined the term Centripetal Fine art to draw the philosophical basis of her art, which she defined as fine art created by an artist who strives towards her center and encounters divine presence there.[half dozen]
Exhibitions and Publications [edit]
Chodos' solo showroom from 1995 "In the Wood of Amida Budda" was described by William Wilson in the Los Angeles Times as a "pocket-size but impressive solo."[8] This exhibition featured works that appeared similar to Japanese scrolls. Chodos painted on top of Mylar with inks and acrylics to get a unique texture for these works.[8]
Chodos published Metamorphoses: The Transformative Vision of Junko Chodos, a catalog of the one-person exhibition of the art of Junko Chodos at the Long Beach Museum of Art in the Fall of 2001. The book featured full-color high-quality reproductions and five critical essays. The works included a selection from collages to mylars included in her "Esoteric Buddhism" series, inside CD gem boxes. The book won "Best Art Book of the Year - Offset Prize"" from Independent Publisher in 2002.[9]
In 2005, the Museum of Gimmicky Religious Art in Missouri presented a 30-yr retrospective of her piece of work titled "Junko Chodos: The Breath of Consciousness". The exhibition championship referenced a recurrent image in her work: the lungs. The exhibition included complex drawings of roots and dead flowers and works from a 1991 series, "Requiem for an Executed Bird".[ten] In the aforementioned twelvemonth, the Fresno Art Museum Quango of 100 gave Junko Chodos The Distinguished Woman Artist Accolade. The accolade is given to a woman who "has spent thirty or more years in the studio and has created a unique and prestigious trunk of piece of work."[11]
Her influences include Paul Klee, Willem de Kooning, Matthias Grünewald, Albrecht Dürer and Japanese calligraphy, besides as the authors Rainer Maria Rilke, Herbert Read and Martin Buber. In 2010, Chodos was named a Swain of the Order for the Arts, Organized religion and Contemporary Culture.[12]
Centripetal Art [edit]
Junko Chodos has termed her art as "Centripetal" in nature. The New Commonwealth defines centripetal artists as artists "whose preoccupation is directed to a dramatization of their accidental or willful individualism". A centripetal painter "believes in self-illumination, improvisation, speaking for himself solitary", they "await to museums when non at mirrors".[13] Junko Chodos herself defines it as "art created past an creative person who strives towards her centre and encounters Divine Presence there, where people become beyond the barriers of ethnicity, gender, religious denominations, dogma, and of confined ideas of blood and soil.[fourteen]
In 2008, Junko and her husband formed the Foundation for Centripetal Art to spread its ideas.[15]
References [edit]
- ^ WILSON, WILLIAM. "Art Review : Junko Chodos Finds a Way 'In the Forest'". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 7 April 2015.
- ^ "Junko Chodos biography". Program Leaders. The Lodge for the Arts, Organized religion and Contemporary Culture. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
- ^ "18 March–31 July 2005 - Junko Chodos: The Breath of Consciousness". St. Louis: Museum of Contemporary Religious Fine art.
- ^ a b "Junko Chodos: The Jiff of Consciousness". Saint Louis Academy. Museum of Gimmicky Religious Art. March eighteen, 2005.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Gottlieb,Shirle "Long Beach Press Telegram Odyssey Of The Spirit" October 5, 2001
- ^ a b Ellen, J. Harold (Summer 2011), "WHY ON World DOES GOD HAVE TO PAINT?, CENTRIPETAL ART, Rafael Chodos", Journal of Psychology and Christianity [ dead link ]
- ^ Cross Currents, Winter 2003, Vol. 52, No iv.
- ^ a b WILSON, WILLIAM. "Art Review : Junko Chodos Finds a Mode 'In the Forest'". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 7 April 2015.
- ^ "Announcing the Winners and Finalists for the Independent Publisher Book Awards 2002". Independent Publisher . Retrieved seven April 2015.
- ^ Saint Louis University, 18 March – 31 July 2005 Junko Chodos: The Breath of Consciousness
- ^ "Fresno Art Museum :: Distinguished Women Artists". world wide web.fresnoartmuseum.org . Retrieved 2019-11-02 .
- ^ "ARC Fellows". Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture . Retrieved 7 Apr 2015.
- ^ Kirstein, Lincoln (23 May 1949). "Centrifugal, Centripetal". The New Republic . Retrieved 7 April 2015.
- ^ "What is Centripetal Art?" (PDF). CentripetalArt.org . Retrieved 13 April 2015.
- ^ J. Harold Ellens (2011). Explaining Evil. ABC-CLIO. pp. 2–. ISBN978-0-313-38715-ix.
Further reading [edit]
- Ellens, J. Harold. "Why on Earth does God Have to Paint? Centripetal Art." CrossCurrents 61.ii (2011): 271-275.
External links [edit]
- Official website
- Centripetal Art
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junko_Chodos
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