Kazuo Nakamura

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Kazuo Nakamura
BornOctober 13, 1926
Vancouver, British Columbia
DiedApril 9, 2002 (aged 75)
Toronto, Ontario
EducationCentral Technical School
Known forpainter, sculptor
MovementPainters Eleven, abstract expressionism
AwardsHonorary Fellow, Ontario College of Art & Design; member, Royal Canadian Academy

Kazuo Nakamura RCA was a Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor (born Vancouver October 13, 1926; died Toronto April 9, 2002) and a founding member of the Toronto-based Painters Eleven group in the 1950s. Among the first major Japanese Canadian artists to emerge in the twentieth century, Nakamura created innovative landscape paintings and abstract compositions inspired by nature, mathematics, and science.[1] His painting is orderly and restrained in contrast to other members of Painters Eleven.[2] His idealism about science echoed the beliefs of Lawren Harris and Jock Macdonald.[3]

  1. ^ Hatch, John G. (2021). Kazuo Nakamura: Life & Work. Toronto: Art Canada Institute. ISBN 978-1-4871-0258-6.
  2. ^ Nasgaard 2008, p. 115.
  3. ^ Nasgaard 2008, p. 116.