Tetsuya Noda

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Tetsuya Noda
Native name 野田 哲也
Born (1940-03-05)5 March 1940
Uki, Kumamoto, Japan
Nationality Japanese
Known for Woodblock and screen print

Tetsuya Noda (野田 哲也 Noda Tetsuya?, born 5 March 1940) is a contemporary artist and printmaker.[1] He is a professor emeritus of the Tokyo University of the Arts.[2] Noda specializes in artwork done as a series of woodblock, print, and silkscreened diary entries that capture moments in daily life. Noda is the nephew of Hideo Noda an oil painter and muralist.[3]

Early life, family and education

Noda was born in the Uki, Kumamoto Prefecture, on 5 March 1940. From 1959 to 1963, he studied painting and fine arts at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.[4] Noda was a student of Tadashige Ono in the art of woodblock printmaking.

In June 1971, Noda married Dorit Bartur, daughter of the Israeli ambassador to Japan.[5]

Career

Before 1980

At the age of 28, Noda won the International Grand Prize at the Tokyo International Print Biennale for diptych Dairy: August 22, 196 and Diary: September 11, 1968.[6] In 1976, Noda was a judge at the 5th British International Biennial of Print in England. From 1978, Noda taught at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. In 1978, Noda was a guest artist at the University of Alberta.

1990s

  • Noda became a professor at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1991.
  • Noda was an International judge at the Seoul International Biennial of Print in 1996.
  • Noda taught as a guest artist at University of Canberra Arts and Design in 1990 and at Columbia University in the City of New York in 1998.

2000s

  • On March 31, 2007, Noda resigned his post as a professor of Printmaking at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.[7]
  • Noda was an International judge at the 2nd Guanlan International Print Biennial in China 2009.
  • Noda became Professor Emeritus of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.[2]
  • From December 2010 to January 2011, Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs dispatched Noda to Israel and England for a cultural exchange. Noda taught Japanese woodblock printmaking at London Metropolitan University, England.[8][9][10]

Public collections

Major exhibitions and awards

Works

Since 1968, Noda’s works have been inspired by themes of his own life. The motif is a comment on his daily life - his family, people he knows, his children’s growth and scenery along his way. He takes photographs of what he sees and likes, then develops and retouches them with pencil or brushes. His works are done using materials close at hand.[26][27]

When asked about how he found his theme; “Diary as an opportunity”, He replied, “at the university I was not at all satisfied with the assignment of painting nudes, it did not seem the right way to express myself.” His independent thinking and determination were highly rewarded. “I started to use a mimeograph cutting machine for the photo images in addition to the woodblock printmaking techniques.” In 1968, four years after he graduated from the university, he received the International Grand Prize at the 6th Tokyo International Print Biennale; “for the audacious combination of photography with traditional woodblock print.[28]

In the British Museum Magazine, Timothy Clark, the keeper of Japanese section wrote “ In nearly fifty years, Noda has created some 500 further works that continue his mesmerizing ‘Diary’ series, using the unique combination of color woodblock and photo-based silkscreen onto handmade Japanese paper that he has made his own. Personal snapshots are rigorously reworked to become subtle mementos of universal significance: ‘what’s in a life?’ we are constantly prompted to ask.”[29][30]

Techniques

Noda’s techniques combine woodblock and mimeographed silkscreen printmaking methods based on traditional woodblock print making techniques that use water colors. As in the case of Ukiyo-e, printmaking a key-block is used to define the main image and is printed first, the colors are then applied with color blocks using registration marks. This is possible because the watercolors are transparent. Noda uses the photo-image in the place of the key-block. The mimeographed photo images are applied in the last stage after having printed the colored areas with woodblocks.[28][26]

Evaluation

Daniel Bell talking about the originality of Noda's prints says, "Noda's distinctiveness lies in three things: the remarkably consistent subject matter of his work, the structure and configurations of his compositions, and the novel techniques, consciously derived from Ukiyo-e, as the means of realizing his intentions."[31][32]

The curator in charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Robert Flynn Johnson wrote, “it is Tetsuya Noda who stands as the most original, innovative, and thought-provoking Japanese printmaker of his era".[33]

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