Sadamasa Motonaga was a Japanese abstract painter and a founding member of the avant-garde Gutai group. He was born on November 26, 1922 in Mie Prefecture, Japan and initially sought to be a ...

The flatness of his intimate, concentrated pictures and the hieroglyphic, cryptic look of his figures suggest an austere, abstract sensibility, despite the fantastic character of his imagery. Stamping ...

Then, in the first decade of the 1900s, this style shifted and ceded way to the avant-garde; The Red Cloud (1907) is a murky premonition of the colours and forms of Matisse’s Dance composed a ...

An exclusive exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College casts a revealing light on how women played a major role in Cuba’s avant-gardemovement The Lost Generation: Women Ceramicists ...