Famous American Sculptor Satoru Abe - Satoru Abe is an American painter and sculptor. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1926. He attended President William McKinley High School, where he took art lessons from Shirley Ximena Hopper Russell. In 1948, after spending a summer at the California School for Fine Arts, he decided to pursue an art career in New York City and attended the Art Students League of New York where he studied with George Grosz, Louis Bouche and Jon Carrol.
Satoru Abe is best known for his sculptures of abstracted natural forms, many of which resemble trees. The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the Hawaii State Art Museum are among the public collections holding works of Satoru Abe. His sculptures in public places include:
Three Rocks on a Hill, Honolulu Community College, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1975
Among the Ruins, Leeward Community College, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1973
Tree of Knowledge, Nanakuli High and Intermediate School, Nanakuli, Hawaii, 1971
The Seed, Farrington High School, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1996 Reaching for the Sun, Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1997
Enchanting Garden, President William McKinley High School, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1983
Three Clouds, Honolulu International Airport, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1974
Five Logs on a Hill, Kau High and Pahala Elementary School, Pahala, Hawaii, 1975
Trees, Vines, Rocks, and Petroglyphs, Lanai Community School, Lanai City, Hawaii, 1976
An Island of Trees, Honolulu International Airport, Diamond Head Extension, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1987
Early Spring, Aiea High School, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1976
Aged Tree, Kauikeaouli Hale, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1976 Untitled sculpture, Leilehua High School, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1976
A Path Through the Trees, Maui High School, Kahului, Hawaii, 1977
A Community Surrounded by Sugar Cane, Kaimiloa Elementary School, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1978.
Moon Beyond the Fence, Pearl City High School, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1981
Spring, Summer, Autumn, James B. Castle High School, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1980.
Landscape on the Ocean, Waiakea High School, Waiakea, Hawaii, 1983
Reaching for the Sun, Iao School, Wailuku, Hawaii, 1981
Boulders, Salt Pond and Taro Fields, Eleele Elementary School, Eleele, Hawaii, 1989
Volcano, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1980
The Famous American Arts
The United States of America is the land of many Famous Artists. The most famous american arts are in field of Film and Music. The world's first commercial motion picture exhibition was given in New York City in 1894, using Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope. The next year saw the first commercial screening of a projected film, also in New York, and the United States was in the forefront of sound film's development in the following decades. Since the early 20th century, the U.S. film industry has largely been based in and around Hollywood, California. American screen actors like John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe have become iconic figures, while producer/entrepreneur Walt Disney was a leader in both animated film and movie merchandising. The major film studios of Hollywood have produced the most commercially successful movies in history, such as Star Wars (1977) and Titanic (1997), and the products of Hollywood today dominate the global film industry. Director D. W. Griffith was central to the development of film grammar and Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941) is frequently cited as the greatest film of all time.
In the visual arts, the Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century movement in the tradition of European naturalism. The 1913 Armory Show in New York City, an exhibition of European modernist art, shocked the public and transformed the U.S. art scene. Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, and others experimented with new styles, displaying a highly individualistic sensibility. Major artistic movements such as the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning and the pop art of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein developed largely in the United States. The tide of modernism and then postmodernism has brought fame to American architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, and Frank Gehry.
Americans are the heaviest television viewers in the world, and the average viewing time continues to rise, reaching five hours a day in 2006. The four major broadcast networks are all commercial entities. Americans listen to radio programming, also largely commercialized, on average just over two-and-a-half hours a day.
The rhythmic and lyrical styles of African American music have deeply influenced American music at large, distinguishing it from European traditions. Elements from folk idioms such as the blues and what is now known as old-time music were adopted and transformed into popular genres with global audiences. Innovators such as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington developed Jazz early in the 20th century. Country music, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll emerged between the 1920s and 1950s. In the 1960s, Bob Dylan emerged from the folk revival to become one of America's greatest songwriters and James Brown led the development of funk. More recent American creations include hip-hop and house music. American pop stars such as Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and Madonna have become global celebrities.
In the visual arts, the Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century movement in the tradition of European naturalism. The 1913 Armory Show in New York City, an exhibition of European modernist art, shocked the public and transformed the U.S. art scene. Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, and others experimented with new styles, displaying a highly individualistic sensibility. Major artistic movements such as the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning and the pop art of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein developed largely in the United States. The tide of modernism and then postmodernism has brought fame to American architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, and Frank Gehry.
Americans are the heaviest television viewers in the world, and the average viewing time continues to rise, reaching five hours a day in 2006. The four major broadcast networks are all commercial entities. Americans listen to radio programming, also largely commercialized, on average just over two-and-a-half hours a day.
The rhythmic and lyrical styles of African American music have deeply influenced American music at large, distinguishing it from European traditions. Elements from folk idioms such as the blues and what is now known as old-time music were adopted and transformed into popular genres with global audiences. Innovators such as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington developed Jazz early in the 20th century. Country music, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll emerged between the 1920s and 1950s. In the 1960s, Bob Dylan emerged from the folk revival to become one of America's greatest songwriters and James Brown led the development of funk. More recent American creations include hip-hop and house music. American pop stars such as Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and Madonna have become global celebrities.
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