Funasaka Yoshisuke 舩坂芳助 (b. 1939) — More of MyJapaneseHanga

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1. collections
   Funasaka's work is held by many major museums, including the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, British Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Library of Congress, and Art Gallery of New South Wales.
2. fukuoka-2010
   Funasaka had a major show at the Fukuoka Art Museum in June 2010 titled 'Ma The Space Enlightened - Yoshisuke Funasaka and Katsu Murakami,' in which the artist's drawings were highlighted.
3. jpa-biennale
   Funasaka became a member of the Japan Print Association in 1960 and remains a member. His first solo show was held in 1967 and he began showing internationally soon thereafter, winning a prize in 1970 at the Tokyo International Print Biennale.
4. nicknames
   Funasaka is best known for his repeated use over many years of the same objects, most notably the lemon and the 'hole,' earning him the nicknames 'The Lemon Man' and 'The Hole Man.'
5. self-taught-techniques
   Originally trained in oil painting, Funasaka is largely a self-taught printmaker who uses a variety of printmaking techniques, often in combination, including woodblock and silkscreen.
6. smith-characterization
   Lawrence Smith, in Modern Japanese Prints 1912-1989 (British Museum Press, 1994), characterized Funasaka's works as occupying 'a world of pure form, an austere and even restricted world of familiar shapes which reveals great subtleties on close scrutiny.'
7. tama-graduation
   Funasaka graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Tama Art University, Tokyo, in 1962. While a student, he worked part-time at a linoleum supplier and practiced carving designs in linoleum to make linocut prints.
8. teaching
   Funasaka has taught printmaking since 1974, when he began teaching at the Asahi Culture Center, and has been instrumental in bringing foreign artists to Japan to learn traditional Japanese arts.