Chapter 21: Curatorial label for "Summer Landscape"

Episode 21 February 28, 2023 00:01:06
Chapter 21: Curatorial label for "Summer Landscape"
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Chapter 21: Curatorial label for "Summer Landscape"

Feb 28 2023 | 00:01:06

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This chapter is the text written by Mckenzie Holbrook for Summer Landscape. It is a minute long. 

A founding member of the 1950s Toronto collective Painters Eleven, Kazuo Nakamura created artworks inspired by the New York abstract expressionist movement, as well as more figurative works. Nakamura viewed abstraction as a means to investigate and explore different modes of perceiving the natural world. 

The gestural, minimal brush strokes and muted colours of Summer Landscape bleed into the white expanse of the paper. As an artist interested in scientific ways of knowing, Nakamura portrayed the natural world as he saw it, unveiling the many ways beauty can be perceived. Here, Nakamura leaves viewers to fill in details; his loose gestural approach lends a moody, cool atmosphere to Summer Landscape. 

Please move to the next stop. Continue along this wall for 8 and a half metres. The drawing is on your left.

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Speaker 0 00:00:00 Chapter 21, curatorial Label for Summer Landscape. This chapter is the text written by Mackenzie Holbrook for summer landscape. It's a minute long. Speaker 1 00:00:13 A founding member of the 1950s Toronto Collective painters, 11 Cazo Nemo, created artworks inspired by the New York abstract expressionist movement, as well as more figurative works. Nakamura viewed abstraction as a means to investigate and explore different modes of perceiving the natural world, the gestural, minimal brushstrokes and muted colors of summer landscape bleed into the white expanse of the paper. As an artist interested in scientific ways of knowing Nakamura portrayed the natural world as he saw it unveiling the many ways beauty can be perceived here. Nakamura leaves viewers to fill in details. His loose gestural approach lends a moody, cool atmosphere to summer landscape. Speaker 0 00:00:59 Please move to the next stop. Continue along this wall for eight and a half meters. The drawing is on your left.

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