Shoji Hamada Ceramic Artist

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Shoji hamada ceramic artist.

View shoji hamada s 519 artworks on artnet. Hamada studied ceramics at the tokyo industrial college now the tokyo institute of technology and was also associated with the kyōto ceramic testing institute. See available design works on paper and sculpture for sale and learn about the artist. Shoji hamada 1894 1978 remains for many the leading studio potter of the 20th century a charismatic artist whose prodigious energy and natural ease as a thrower and decorator did most to bring the established language of japanese form and glazing into the modern age.

Check out our shoji hamada selection for the very best in unique or custom handmade pieces from our fine art ceramics shops. Hamada was born in kawasaki japan in 1894 named shoji 象ニ. With bernard leach he helped to. After finishing elitist hibiya high school he studied ceramics at tokyo institute of technology then known as tokyo industrial college with kawai kanjirō under itaya hazan as the sole students in the school interested in becoming artist potters hamada and the slightly elder kawai were soon friends touring the.

Shoji hamada was a japanese ceramicist and an important member of the mingei folk art movement.