Kimono as Art
Treat yourself to a trip to Canton OH and feast your eyes on The Landscape Art of Itchiku Kubota. Internationally acclaimed artist Itchiku Kubota used silk kimono as his canvas.
Kubota had a lifelong fascination with the subtle changes of color and the quality of light achieved through skillful dyeing techniques combined with the reflective properties of silk. He often used nature as the inspiration for his work.
This stunning exhibition of forty over-sized landscape kimono is visiting the United States for only the second time, since its 1995 exhibition at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.
Itchiku Kubota’s dream was to live to be 100, the time it would take for him to complete a series of 75 kimono that would hang side-by-side, forming a monumental tapestry of the four seasons called Symphony of Light. He completed 30 of these pieces, Autumn and Winter, before his death on April 26, 2003.
While at Canton Museum take in the “Watercolors by the Masters” exhibit. This exhibit of 24 master works from their permanent collection includes paintings by Romare Bearden, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth. These American masters brought a new dimension to watercolor painting, each one handling the medium in a purely individual way.
