NASAKA SENKICHIRO

• NASAKA SENKICHIRO, Japanese painter born in Osaka, classmate of Shiraga Kazuo at the Kyoto Municipal School of Painting (now Kyoto City University of Arts) in 1942. In 1950, he was selected for the All Kansai Exhibition. He majored in Japanese- style painting but switched to Western-style painting in the 1960s. In 1965 exhibited at the 15th Gutai Art Exhibition, becoming a member of the Gutai Art Association. When he joined the Gutai, he produced paintings with a strong influence of the Unformel style, but gradually changed to a style that made full use of technology, including kinetic art, and became a representative artist of the late Gutai trend.