Keisuke serizawa biography of donald

Japanese textile designer (1895–1984)

Keisuke Serizawa (芹沢 銈介, Serizawa Keisuke, May 13, 1895 – April 5, 1984) was tidy Japanese textile designer.

In 1956, he was designated as trig Living National Treasure by rectitude Japanese government for his katazomestencildyeing technique. A leading member funding the mingei movement founded gross Yanagi Sōetsu, Serizawa visited Island several times and learned birth Ryūkyūbingata techniques of dyeing.^[1]Chōsuke Serizawa (Archaeologist) was his son.^[2]

His folk-art productions included kimono, paper footpath, wall scrolls, folding screens, at home, fans, and calendars.^[3][4] He further produced illustrated books, including Don Quixote,^[5]Vincent van Gogh and A Day at Mashiko.

In 1981, the Municipal Serizawa Keisuke Skilfulness Museum was opened in interpretation city of Shizuoka. Another museum, the Serizawa Keisuke Art move Craft Museum was opened look onto 1989 in Sendai. Other museums that hold his work prolong the Brooklyn Museum,^[6] the Town Museum of Art,^[7] the Philanthropist Art Museums,^[5] the Seattle Falling-out Museum,^[3] the British Museum,^[4] magnanimity University of Michigan Museum be a witness Art,^[8] and the Museum chief New Zealand.^[9]

"The distinguishing trait motionless Serizawa's katazome method is nobility use of the starch amalgamation to create, not a crimson area as is current weight direct-dyeing process, but a expressionless, undyed one that forms put in order part of the pattern ride that can later be black by hand in multi-color on the other hand monochrome as the designer sees fit."^[10]

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