Kambara Tai
Native name
神原 泰
Born(1899-02-23)February 23, 1899
Sentai
DiedMarch 28, 1997(1997-03-28) (aged 98)
Yokohama
Pen nameTai[1]
OccupationWriter, poet, art critic
LanguageJapanese
NationalityJapanese
PeriodTaishō
GenreFuturism
Literary movementAvant-garde

Kambara Tai (Japanese: 神原 泰, Hepburn: Tai Kambara) (23 Februari 1899 – 28 March 1997), real name Kambara Yasushi, artist name Tai, was a Japanese poet, author, art critic and Japanese futurism pioneer.[1]

Life

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Kambara was born in Sendai, but his family soon moved to Tokyo. Kambara Tai started out as a poet, but then temporarily turned to painting. In 1917 his submitted paintings for the exhibition of the artists' association Nika-kai (二 科 会). In 1920 he founded together with Harue Koga, Kigen Nakagawa (中 川 紀元; 1892–1972), Junnosuke Yokoyama (横山 潤 之 助; 1903–1971) and others the avant-garde art group "Action" (アクション, Akushon), which was part of the group "Future Wings of Art" (未来 派 美術 協会, Mirai-ha bijutsu kyōkai), abbreviated to "MAVO" (マヴォ). He then founded the association "Sanka" (三 科) in 1925 followed by "Layout" (造形, Zōkei), from which he withdrew in 1927. That was also the time when he seized his painting activities.
Kambara exchanged letters with futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and wrote numerous publications about futurism and other topics. In 1990 he donated his material on Picasso and the avant-garde movement as the "Kambara Tai Library" to the Ohara Museum of Art. He died as a result of heart failure on March 28, 1997 in Minami-ku, Yokohama at the age of 98. [2]

Literature

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  • Japanese Modern Art: Painting from 1910 to 1970, Edition Stemmle, Zürich - New York, 1999, ISBN 3-908161-86-X

Expositions

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Kambara, Tai, Benezit Dictionary of artists". oxfordartonline.com. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Kambara Tai - Tobunken". tobunken.go.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 September 2020.



Category:1899 births Category:1997 deaths Category:People from Tokyo Category:Japanese male poets Category:20th-century Japanese poets Category:20th-century Japanese male writers