Woman Flower Basket (Hanaire)
Nagakura Ken'ichi Japanese
Not on view
Nagakura Ken’ichi often seeks to deconstruct the traditional Japanese idea of a vessel. While his works are generally abstract in terms of composition, a number of them still function as flower vases. The influence of twentieth-century Western sculpture (by Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi, Henry Moore, and Jean Arp), American Pop art, and prehistoric art forms is evident throughout his oeuvre, although many of his pieces are equally inspired by nature, especially decaying vegetation, roots, fallen leaves, or animals. In 2000 he became the first recipient of the Lloyd Cotsen Bamboo Prize, established by the well-known collector of bamboo art.
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