Artist Kazuo Shiraga, 83
Posted: Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 7:32 pm1924 - April 8, 2008
Kazuo Shiraga was a distinguished Japanese avant-garde artist noted for his unusual method: using his own body to apply paint to the canvas. Revolutionary in the 1950s, this technique now seems to anticipate later international developments in performance art and conceptual art. …