There is a bulletin board next to the entrance Tsukuba Public Library, full of colorful exhibition posters. A few days ago I was by this particular illustration:
It was bold, simple, stark...and so expressive! :)
Was this a woodblock-print? Who was the artist?
The artist, it turned out, was a son of Ibaraki prefecture - Takidaira Jiro (1921-2009), and this particular piece is titled "Baby Powder" (1974).
A retrospective on his work is to be held at the Ibaraki Museum of Modern Art from 3 November 2010 to 1 January 2011:
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MORE INFO & LINKS
- A Japanese Book - http://www.ajapanesebook.com/2009/05/takidaira-jiro.html
- Guest Shorts: Jiro Takidaira - http://www.pgannon.com/papercuts/2010/02/25/guest-shots-jiro-takidaira/#more-695
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