Artifacts: Shoichi Ida by Ursula T.

Biography

Shoichi Ida is a Kyoto based artist who studied at the Oil Painting Department of Kyoto Municipal University of Art. Living from 1941-2006, he worked primarily throughout the 50 s -70s, but the images here are from the 1989 and 1992. Ida was influenced by three main movements in Japan - anti-art ,Gutai, and Mono-ha. Anti art and Gutai were prevalent in the 50s and 60s, while mono ha came to the forefront in the 70s.

Form/presentation

Formal Charictaristics

Primarily central

Minimal amount of lines to achieve image

Uses color to show image

Familiar and new at the same time

Minimal color palette

Personal thoughts

See what is not there

Represents an idea rather than a physical object

Final - Time( uses color, not lines to show, apparently goes on forever.

Personal response

I chose this artist due to a fun name and relative ease to research. I had tried to look at some others, but I found that they did not interest me as much or I struggled to find anything. For me, I find trying to turn an idea into a picture or a written piece is extremely difficult. It requires a complete breaking of the traditional art styles. In these, color is placed after textures and lines for the most part. What Ida wants the viewer to see may not be the image itself, but the image those shapes form. There is also a play of what can be clearly seen and what is blurry. In the second image, There are faint lines in the background that form to look like a diamond. The image may represent a concept that may look clear cut at first, but is actually incredibly blurry once questioned.