FINAL #2 Gutai

Question 1

Jiro Yoshihara *

Answer 1

• Japanese painter that co-founded the Gutai group.

- Wrote the Gutai manifesto.

Question 2

Centrifugal *

Answer 2

• moving or tending to move away from a center.

- Art of Gutai practices this

Question 3

Centripetal *

Answer 3

• moving or tending to move toward a center.

- medium specificity…. art moves to center.

Question 4

Gutai *

Answer 4

• Japanese radical art group post WWII… a reaction to the war. (Godzilla)
• Influenced by Pollock… Gutai artists saw a film of Pollock painting on the ground. They thought that the act of him painting on the ground was art (not the canvas itself). Thought it was a performance.
• It focuses on decay and destruction.
  > there is beauty in decay
  > we’re attracted to decay b/c we’re attracted to truth… decay is truth coming out.
  > From destruction there’s birth.

Question 5

Gutai Work

Answer 5

• Believes that the canvas is the arena where material can perform… it is where the material and spirit meet… this is a recourse to indexical… from the process comes the composition.
• Is opposite from medium specificity… instead on one medium it believes in using as much material as possible.
• Much of the work is an attack on tradition.
• Similar to Dada b/c of reaction to war but Dada is focused more on destructiveness for destructions sake…. Gutai is more productive… meant to free material

Question 6

New-Concretism

Answer 6

• Similar to New-Concretism occurring in Brazil.
  > Moves from pictorial space to literal space and then to interactive art… ex. Lygia Clark
• Also moves to wearing art and to performative art.