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Ray Kakuo Yoshida

Ray Kakuo Yoshida (1930 - 2009) was active/lived in Illinois, Hawaii.  Ray Yoshida is known for Collage-Chicago imagism, geometric, funk cartoons.

Known for abstract paintings, collage and a movement, Chicago Imagism, Ray Yoshida was also a teacher for four decades at the Art Institute of Chicago.  "Unlike the art world of New York City, where prestige in the second half of the 20th century was accorded mainly to abstraction, conceptualism and cool forms of Pop Art, the Chicago art world favored surrealism, fantasy and oddball humor."  And Yoshida was one of the leaders of this movement.

He was born in Kapaa, Hawaii to Japanese parents, and attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa, near Honolulu from 1948 to 1950.  He served in the U.S. Army and in 1953, earned a fine arts degree from the Art Institute of Chicago.  In 1958, he received an M.A. degree from Syracuse University, and the following year at the Chicago Art Institute, began his teaching career, which lasted until the early 2000s.

His early signature work was a collage series composed of fragments of images he cut   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2177 characters.]  Artist bio

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