{"id":7962,"global_id":"portlandartmuseum.org?id=7962","global_id_lineage":["portlandartmuseum.org?id=7962"],"author":"15","status":"publish","date":"2023-10-12 10:30:54","date_utc":"2023-10-12 17:30:54","modified":"2023-10-12 14:40:49","modified_utc":"2023-10-12 21:40:49","url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/event\/three-masters-of-abstraction\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/7962","title":"Three Masters of Abstraction","description":"

Hagiwara Hideo, Ida Sh\u014dichi, and Takahashi Rikio<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This exhibition presents nearly fifty prints by three Japanese artists who rose to international prominence in the decades following World War II. All of them embraced abstraction, that most quintessential of Western modernisms, as a means for expressing fundamentally Japanese themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hagiwara Hideo (1913\u20132007) combined abstract expression with imaginative approaches to traditional Japanese woodblock techniques to create prints of great visual depth. Winner of multiple international print exhibition prizes, Hagiwara taught printmaking at Oregon State University in 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Takahashi Rikio (1917\u20131998) is known for his prints evoking Japanese gardens throughout the seasons, without ever depicting a plant or stone. Working almost exclusively in woodblock, he created images that convey stillness, balance, and a sense of timelessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ida Sh\u014dichi (1941\u20132006) took abstraction to radically new levels. For him, the techniques of silkscreen, lithography, etching, and traditional woodblock printing were not instruments for creating images, but forces that act upon or emerge from the paper. In his reverence for the potential inherent in the materials, Ida harks back to aesthetic values of the Japanese tea ceremony and Mingei movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This exhibition draws upon prints in the Museum\u2019s collection and from the Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View the works in our permanent collection<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Organized by the Portland Art Museum and curated by <\/em>Maribeth Graybill, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Asian Art, with Irwin Lavenberg, Research Associate for Japanese Art.<\/em><\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"three-masters-of-abstraction","image":{"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Takahashi-Rikio-Revelation.jpeg","id":7963,"extension":"jpeg","width":900,"height":1538,"filesize":326186,"sizes":{"medium":{"width":410,"height":700,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":48231,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Takahashi-Rikio-Revelation-410x700.jpeg"},"large":{"width":765,"height":1308,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":157624,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Takahashi-Rikio-Revelation-765x1308.jpeg"},"thumbnail":{"width":270,"height":270,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":16078,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Takahashi-Rikio-Revelation-270x270.jpeg"},"medium_large":{"width":768,"height":1312,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":158406,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Takahashi-Rikio-Revelation-768x1312.jpeg"},"1536x1536":{"width":899,"height":1536,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":212159,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Takahashi-Rikio-Revelation-899x1536.jpeg"},"small":{"width":375,"height":500,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":37314,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Takahashi-Rikio-Revelation-375x500.jpeg"},"medium-large":{"width":527,"height":900,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":77007,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Takahashi-Rikio-Revelation-527x900.jpeg"},"card":{"width":900,"height":565,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":113344,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Takahashi-Rikio-Revelation-900x565.jpeg"},"post":{"width":900,"height":500,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":100755,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Takahashi-Rikio-Revelation-900x500.jpeg"},"hero":{"width":900,"height":1080,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":208655,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Takahashi-Rikio-Revelation-900x1080.jpeg"}}},"all_day":true,"start_date":"2018-11-03 00:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2018","month":"11","day":"03","hour":"00","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2019-03-31 23:59:59","end_date_details":{"year":"2019","month":"03","day":"31","hour":"23","minutes":"59","seconds":"59"},"utc_start_date":"2018-11-03 07:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2018","month":"11","day":"03","hour":"07","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2019-04-01 06:59:59","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2019","month":"04","day":"01","hour":"06","minutes":"59","seconds":"59"},"timezone":"America\/Vancouver","timezone_abbr":"","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"$","currency_code":"USD","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":false,"show_map_link":false,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Exhibitions","slug":"exhibitions","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":201,"filter":"raw","id":17,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/17","collection":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":{"id":290,"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2023-03-28 10:28:29","date_utc":"2023-03-28 17:28:29","modified":"2024-03-07 10:38:06","modified_utc":"2024-03-07 18:38:06","url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/venue\/portland-art-museum\/","venue":"Portland Art Museum","description":"

The Museum is conveniently located on the historic Park Blocks in the center of downtown Portland, which is easy to get around by public transit or on foot. The Portland Business Alliance has installed way-finding signs which direct you to the cultural district, where the Museum is located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is generally plenty of street parking surrounding the Museum. These spaces range from 1 \u2013 4 hours and can be paid for using a credit card or the Parking Kitty app<\/a>. There are also surface parking lots, and parking garages within 1 \u2013 4 blocks of the Museum. The closest surface lot is located at SW Main St. between SW 10th Ave. and Park Ave, and there are dedicated accessible and van accessible spaces. This lot accepts credit card or the Reef app<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public transit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Getting to get to the Museum by public transportation is straightforward and economical. The bus and streetcar travel directly past the Museum, and the MAX light rail has a stop only four blocks away.\u00a0TriMet\u2019s Trip Planner<\/a>\u00a0gives you step-by-step travel directions from your location by bus, light rail, or streetcar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n