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Title:	Saitō Kiyoshi: Graphic Awakening
Date:	3/14/2021 - 8/15/2021
Address:	The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota, FL 34243
Location:	Sarasota, FL
Hours:	10:00am - 5:00pm
Cost/Cover:	Adult $25 \| Senior (65+) $23 \| Child (6-17) $5 \| Child 5 and under are Free \| Members are Free
Web Page:	https://www.ringling.org/events/sait%c5%8d-kiyoshi-graphic-a ...
Contact Info:	941-359-5700

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Saito Kiyoshi’s (1907–1997) keen sense of design, superb technique and engagement with an appealing variety of themes made him one of the best known and most popular Japanese print artists of the twentieth century. In the wake of the Second World War, Saito emerged as a seminal figure of the modernist creative print movement, in which artists claimed complete authorship of their work by carving and printing their own designs. He flourished as the movement attracted patrons among members of the occupying forces and, later, Western travelers for business and pleasure. Honors at the 1951 São Paulo Biennial launched him and the creative print movement to prominence at home and abroad. When new diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Japan provided opportunities for Japanese artists to exhibit, teach, and live abroad, Saito was among the first to do so, thus further broadening his audience.