Pop modernist Keiichi Tanaami shares his technicolor memories

Tokyo exhibition and book secure late Japanese artist's place in the canon

20241107 Japanese artist Keiichi Tanaami

The artist Keiichi Tanaami left behind a huge body of work before passing away at the age of 88 on Aug. 9, just two days after his Tokyo retrospective opened.  © EPA/Jiji

EDWARD M. GOMEZ, Contributing writer

TOKYO -- In art and design, "less is more." So said the renowned German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the last director of Europe's famed Bauhaus school in the 1930s, in a classic dictum expressing modernism's reverence for stripped-down, serenely minimalist forms in buildings, objects, paintings and just about everything else.

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