Yasuo Hayashi Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1928 -

Born in 1928 in Kyoto, Yahuo Hayashi was the first Japanese artist to dedicate himself to ceramics and at the same time to abstraction. In his substantial body of work spanning over 6 decades, the tradition of Japanese ceramics plays a large role, and yet Hayashi finds a new vocabulary, in order to bring the ceramic works to the avant-garde. Thereby he has inspired generations of Japanese artists.

In the first instance he studied painting at Kyoto Arts College, and then, after his military service, studied in his father?s ceramics workshop. In 1947 he was the co-founder of Shikokai, an association of ceramic artists. In 1957 he left the group in order to be more independent. Between 1962 and 1977 he belonged to the group Sodeisha, another ceramics association. In 1972 he received a professorship at Osaka University.