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Kazuo Shiraga, which started painting with his feet before joining Gutai Art Association in 1955, begins to build compositions formed only by the traces of his feet, encountering the novel plastic thinking of Jiro Yoshihara. Shiraga then concentrates for about 10 years creating various compositions in response to changes of his body motion. In 1960s, Shirga’s feet-paintings goes into recess for about 15 years so he can look into different ways to paint without using his feet; Shiraga ends up structuring compositions by adapting effective backgrounds to express subject matters. Around 1979, after a comeback to the feet-paintings, Shiraga starts to focus not on overcoming his past expression, but on applying appropriate actions, which have been already explored, to express the subject matter. Shiraga's feet-paintings works after 1980s, prioritizing to perform actions commensurate with the subject matter, show us the new possibilities of action paintings as a result of continuing the same method for more than a decade combined. |
