Hisako kobayashi biography of donald

Hisako Kobayashi has been showing her art for the past three decades on five continents. As an abstract painter, her art combines the influences of a person who still feels a strong affinity for her native Japan, but who also received rigorous training in the US, and who has lived in this country for most of her adult life.

Art critic Donald Kuspit has written of her work: "Kobayashi's paintings exemplify the romantic idea that 'it is by feeling alone that art is to be understood,' as Baudelaire has written. Her work is also grounded in the idea that painting should model itself on music, the purest of all the arts. Kobayashi's music is subtle and complex. The abstract language of color and gesture seem indistinguishable, giving the paintings an uncanny presence. The colors insinuate themselves into each other even as they retain their separateness. Her work speaks to Kandinsky's concern for an art of feeling that causes the soul to 'vibrate.'"

Hisako grew up in Tokyo before moving to New York City in to earn a Masters of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute. The mother of two grown children, she lives with her husband in an artist's loft in downtown Manhattan.

Hisako Kobayashi grew up in Tokyo before moving to New York City in to earn a Master of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute. An abstract painter, she has since exhibited her work on five continents over a span of three decades. Upon observation, her works clearly and openly illustrate a maternal devotion to her native Japan while at once embracing the essence of her newfound Western sensibilities. 

Art critic Donald Kuspit has authored this on her work, "Kobayashi's paintings exemplify the romantic idea that 'it is by feeling alone that art is to be understood."

As Baudelaire has written, "Her work is also grounded in the idea that painting should model itself on music, the purest of all the arts. Kobayashi's compositions are subtle and complex, a cadence of color and gesture seemingly indistinguishable, giving her paintings their unearthly presence. Colors insinuate themselves into one another even while they remain divergent. Her work clearly speaks to Kandinsky's concern for an art of feeling that causes the soul to 'vibrate." 

The mother of two grown children, she lives with her husband in an artist's loft in downtown Manhattan.

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Hisako Kobayashi grew up in Tokyo before moving to New York City in to earn a Masters of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute. She has exhibited at New York&#;s Georges Berges Gallery and the Brooklyn Museum, and at other prestigious venues on four continents. As an abstract painter, her art combines the influences of a person who still feels a strong affinity for her native culture, while integrating her life experience outside Japan in her work.

The dean of American art critics, Donald Kuspit, has devoted an essay to Hisako’s work. Kuspit contrasts her art with Jackson Pollock’s, observing: “Kobayashi’s slower moving, more intimate paintings–their more tender surface drawing us into the sensual depths, luring our psyche rather their overwhelming it, their calmer gestures softly touching the canvas rather than brusquely thrown down on it, their refined painterliness at odds with Pollock’s raw painterliness—embody the feminine sublime.”