Tuesday, Oct 1, 6:30 pm, Ferguson Center Great Hall
Meditations on Ink:
Identities and Expressions in East Asia
Asian Studies Lecture by
Nathan Cummings and Robert B. and Beatrice C. Mayer Chair in Fine Arts
Professor of Fine Arts, and East Asian Studies
Stimulated by a recent exhibition of the painter and industrial designer Minol Araki at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, this talk explores the adaptability of ink aesthetics to multiple identities and expressions in East Asia. As a Manchurian-born Japanese artist who studied with the preeminent Chinese master in Taiwan–Zhang Daqian–in the 1970s, Araki invites reflections on those aspects of ink painting (play, abstraction, calligraphism, and transculturalism) that have made this classical art form appealing to the modern eye. In addition, the talk will introduce technical and stylistic innovations since World War II which anticipate the conceptualism of contemporary “ink art.”
Cosponsors with Asian Studies