Work 作品

The Jikken Kobo (Experiment Studio),founded in 1951 and having as its members the artists Shozo Kitadai, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, and Hideko Fukushima, the composer Toru Takemitsu, and the poet Kuniharu Akiyama, tried to create new and more public-spirited art through organically combining various art forms. Fukushima, as a member of the group, worked on costumes and stage sets for ballet projects with Kitadai and also produced works of autoslides. In the field of oil painting, she created both for the exhibition of the "Jikken Kobo" and for her own shows. In the early period around 1950, her paintings were figurative in the surrealistic style, and carried ironical messages. But in the mid '5Os, she turned to a totally abstract style with groups of variously sized circles as found in this work, and won praise for it from the French critic Michel Tapié and other foreign and Japanese critics. Her paintings in this style are abstract, and yet, the contrast between the fragility of the scratchy lines and the forcefulness of the clusters of circles formed by those lines, seems to figuratively present the artist's inner conflicts.