GUTAI

A group of Japanese artists, trained in various disciplines including law and literature, founded in Osaka by Jiro Yoshihara (1905–72), they produced collective paintings and Mixed-Means theater pieces, some of them quite spectacular. The first Gutai exhibition in Tokyo, October 1955, included Saburo Murakami’s Paper Tearing and Kazuo Shiraga’s Challenging Mud, both of which were influential. Yoshihara founded a journal that lasted a decade (1955–65) and issued The Gutai Manifesto in 1956...