{"id":13766,"date":"2009-10-14T09:40:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T14:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=13766"},"modified":"2023-01-24T13:58:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T18:58:12","slug":"takako-yamaguchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/10\/14\/takako-yamaguchi\/","title":{"rendered":"Painter who blends Japanese, European aesthetics to discuss her work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Takako Yamaguchi, a painter influenced by Western romanticism and a Japanese design aesthetic, speaks about her career in the visual arts at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, in Olin Arts Center&#8217;s Room 104, 75 Russell St.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The event, which is open to the public at no cost, is sponsored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum.xml\">Bates College Museum of Art<\/a>. For more information, call 207-786-6158.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Bates class of 1975, Yamaguchi lives in Santa Monica, Calif. Her landscapes have been described by Art in America as a synthesis of American Modernist painting with the stylized graphics of &#8220;ukiyo-e,&#8221; a popular style of Japanese woodblock printing.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Times extended that comparison to include the influence of the abstract patterns of Japanese textiles and screen paintings. Her paintings &#8220;celebrate \u2026 the ecstatic beauty of the natural world,&#8221; a Times reviewer wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Yamaguchi has exhibited extensively around the world. Her paintings are housed in several collections, including those of the Nevada Museum of Art and the Long Beach Museum of Art.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Okayama, Japan, in 1952, Yamaguchi studied at the Rhode Island School of Design after graduating from Bates. She earned her master&#8217;s in fine arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takako Yamaguchi, a painter influenced by Western romanticism and a Japanese design aesthetic, speaks about her career in the visual arts at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, in Olin Arts Center&#8217;s Room 104, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which is open to the public at no cost, is sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art. For more information, call 207-786-6158.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1363,4600,6889],"class_list":["post-13766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","tag-bates-college-museum-of-art","tag-japanese-art","tag-performing-and-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93280,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766\/revisions\/93280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}