Takako saito biography of barack

Takako Saito (斉藤陽子, Saitō Takako, 1929, Sabae, Fukui, Japan) is a visual artist.

The daughter of a landowner and youngest of a family of three children, Saito Takako had a peaceful childhood in a bourgeois milieu, despite the war and its violent destruction.

After studying psychology at Nihon Joshi Daigaku (Japan Women’s University), she became a professor. In hopes of promoting the freedom of creation, she took part in the Sōzō Biiku undo movement for artistic creative education founded by Teijirŏ Kubo in 1953.

Takako saito biography of barack

During one of the numerous workshops organised by this group, Saito Takako met the artist Ay-O. Through their friendship, she became acquainted with the avant-garde movements in Tokyo, and later New York were Ay-O lived from 1958.

Inspired by her friend’s stories, Saito went to New York in 1963. Ay-O presented her to George Maciunas, who introduced her to the Fluxus group, with whom she shared the same free spirit and the use of past experience as a means o