Word: kuniyoshi
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...came into its own, only to disintegrate in the last 15 years under the probing abstractionist brushes of Willem de Kooning and others like him. The exhibition has a rare nude by Maurice Prendergast, a delicate bit of impressionism by Mary Cassatt, an angular Girl Wearing Bandanna by Yasuo Kuniyoshi. But even when the nude is at its most vigorous, its treatment varies dramatically from artist to artist. William Glackens' Nude with Apple is in standard studio pose-a composition of color rather than a slice of life. John Sloan, realist though he was, thought most painted nudes pornographic...
...enrolled at Manhattan's Art Students League and began studying under Morris Kantor and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. but after four years he still had not found himself. "Even then. I was seeking what Rimbaud seemed to have found: 'New forms that the inventions of the unknown demand.' " So. in 1953. he settled in Paris in a large studio on the Left Bank. There, his present abstract-expressionist style of painting began to emerge...
...school, which he was attending to learn English, noticed how skillfully he drew the little figures to illustrate maps. The teacher got him into the Los Angeles School of Art and Design. Though he still had to work as a bellhop in winter and a fruit picker in summer, Kuniyoshi's career as a painter had begun...
...made his way to Manhattan, and before long fell in with a group of young men who were all destined to become famous: Stuart Davis, Morris Kantor, Alexander Brook, Reginald Marsh and Walt Kuhn. It was a heady bunch to belong to, but Kuniyoshi's paintings were...
...their Oriental lilt. His women were sensuous and thoroughly American, but they were nearly always by themselves, sad and impassive. What impressed him about the West was not its crops and bellowing herds, but sullen stillness before a prairie storm or an eerie milk train passing in the night. Kuniyoshi's America seemed to have neither skyscraper nor factory. It was a land where fantasy stretched from horizon to horizon and a child played mindlessly in the ruins of a ghost town...