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Toshiko Takaezu

Ceramic, Glass and Metal Artists

Toshiko Takaezu (1922 to 2011) was an American ceramic artist, painter, sculptor, textile artist and educator of Japanese descent from Hawaii, whose body of work spanned ceramics, weavings, bronzes and paintings. She is known for rounded, closed ceramic forms that broke from the tradition of clay as a medium for functional objects, exploring its potential for aesthetic expression by applying Abstract Expressionist concepts, and she is recognized as one of the ceramic artists of the 1950s and 1960s who moved the practice of ceramics beyond a commercial trade into a form of artistic expression.

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Ceramics, Art Forms
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Painting, Art Forms
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Sculpture, Art Forms
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Textile Arts, Art Forms
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1. Wikipedia: Toshiko Takaezu
  • Gender reference
    She was noted for her pioneering work in ceramics and played an important role in the international revival of interest in the ceramic arts.
  • Wikipedia sections
    Eager to learn more about the lives and careers of artists, Takaezu enrolled in Saturday painting classes at the Honolulu Museum of Art School (1947-1949) studying with Louis Pohl and Ralston Crawford.
  • Practices: Painting, Lead section
    Toshiko Takaezu (June 17, 1922 - March 9, 2011) was an American ceramic artist, painter, sculptor, textile artist and educator whose body of work spanned a wide range of mediums, including ceramics, weavings, bronzes, and paintings.
  • Practices: Sculpture, Lead section
    Toshiko Takaezu (June 17, 1922 - March 9, 2011) was an American ceramic artist, painter, sculptor, textile artist and educator whose body of work spanned a wide range of mediums, including ceramics, weavings, bronzes, and paintings.
  • Practices: Ceramics, Lead section
    Toshiko Takaezu (June 17, 1922 - March 9, 2011) was an American ceramic artist, painter, sculptor, textile artist and educator whose body of work spanned a wide range of mediums, including ceramics, weavings, bronzes, and paintings.
  • Practices: Textile Arts, Lead section
    Toshiko Takaezu (June 17, 1922 - March 9, 2011) was an American ceramic artist, painter, sculptor, textile artist and educator whose body of work spanned a wide range of mediums, including ceramics, weavings, bronzes, and paintings.
  • In Group: Modernist Ceramic Artists, Lead
    Instead she explored clay's potential for aesthetic expression, taking on Abstract Expressionist concepts in a manner that places her work in the realm of postwar abstractionism.
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Wikidata: Toshiko Takaezu
Wikidata Q7827716, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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