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CERAMIC ART   
The internationally active and famed artist Takeshi Yamada created a series of artworks by using the ceramic plates in Osaka, Japan and Chicago, Illinois. Some of these were displayed for sale at the fine art galleries.
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BLUE HORSE OF ALCHEMY (CERAMIC PLATE)
This oil painting was rendered on the non-fired white ceramic plate, when I livbed in Chicago, Illinois. It was a part of the series of my Blue Horse Of Alchemy series (oil painting on the credit card size blank plastics and the non-fired white ceramic plate). The series was created for my solo art exhibition at the Brownsboro Gallery in Louisville, Kentucky in 1998. The city is famous for the festive horse racing, Kentucky Derby. The horse is one of the 12 divine animals in the Chinese zodac, which is also used in Japan. The horse is also one of the good-luck-charms in Japan, becasuee the word for the horse "Uma" echoes the word "Umakuiku" (Things goes well) in Japanese.  
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KENTUCKY. BLUE HORSE OF ALCHEMY. oil painting on non-fired white ceramic plate, 12.75 inch, Takeshi Yamada. 1998
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CHICAGO (CERAMIC PLATE)
Yamada created a series of oil paintings on the non-fired white ceramic plates as the part of the series of the Chicago street scene-inspired artworks, when he lived in Chicago, Illinois for 13 years. These were displaed at his solo art exhibitions at the Neville-Sergent Gallery in teh River North Gallery District Chicago. 
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LISA: GODDESS OF ALCHEMY (CERAMIC PLATE)
A series of oil paintings rendered on the ceramic dinner plates entitled "three-eyed Goddess Lisa" was created by Yamada when he was a student of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland. Yamada took hundreds of photos of his artist friend Lisa, and created these.

(Photos will be posted shortly.) 
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THREE-EYED GODDESS OF ALCHEMY (CERAMIC PLATE)
A series of oil paintings rendered on the ceramic dinner plates entitled "Three-eyed Goddess of Alchemy" was created by Yamada in Osaka, Japan, just before he moved to the United States in 1983. For Yamada, these are religious objects of spiritual and physical powers to protect his family and his nation, while is is away from there. (Yamada left Japan to the USA in 1983.) The images of these European-looking ladies are based on his memory of the oil paintings, that he saw at the major Western art exhibitions in Osaka, Japan. Yamada purchased the white dining dishes at the local store for these. 





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