MEASUREMENTS: 26"WX30"H FRAMED, MINT CONDITION/"in the style of"Tsuruko Yamazaki was a Japanese artist, known for her bold artistic experiments with abstract visual styles and non-traditional materials. She was a co-founder and the longest-standing female member of the Gutai Art Association, an avant-garde artists' collective established by Jiro Yoshihara.In 1957, Yamazaki pushed further her experiments with tinplate. At 'The 3rd Gutai Art Exhibition' (1957), she showed a series of tinplate panels which she had hammered and perforated.Protruding and concaving irregularly, the panels looked like abstract metal reliefs. Yamazaki used color-gel lights to underscore further the metallic texture and the uneven surface of the works. The manipulated surfaces highlighted the materiality and three-dimensionality of tin panels, echoing Gutai's shared interest in physical materials. At the same time, the dazzlingly colorful gleams again evoked the visual experience of the luminosity of movie screens, televisions, pachinko machines, and neon lights – increasingly prevalent objects in the prospering urban space of 1950s Japan. For 'The 4th Gutai Art Exhibition', held in the same year in Tokyo, Yamazaki created a group of tin works by pouring and dripping aniline dye and varnish onto tinplate panels.Flowing and streaking freely on the surface of the panels, the bright and semi-transparent dyes complicated the reflective texture of tin, creating a complex interplay of colors, lights, and reflections.Yamazaki's visual vocabulary in the 1960s and 70s gradually assimilated elements from Pop Art. Rather than continuing the earlier gestural abstraction, she created kitschy works with highly luminous colors and eye-dazzling patterns. Pop-inspired motifs such as speech bubbles and polka dots also began to appear in her paintings from this period. After Gutai disbanded in 1972, Yamazaki started incorporating more figural motifs like images of animals and advert posters. In a 2009 series titled Ukiyoe: Hell of Color, she reworked readymade Ukiyoe prints by covering them with patches and strokes of bright paints. Since the late 1990s, Yamazaki had returned to her earlier exploration of tinplate, creating abstract paintings with liquid dye on tin panels./Private collection, no documentation. We offer a 14day money back guarantee if you are not satisfied with your purchase send back for full refund within 14 days.