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Artist – TANAKA
Masaaki (田中
正秋), born 1947 in Setagaya, Tokio Prefecture, is a Japanese
printmaker of woodblocks and silksreens.
Influenced by his father TANAKA Akio, he came into contact with painting at an early age and already won art competitions in elementary school. In 1967, he began his studies at the Musashino Art School west of Tokyo in Tokyo Prefecture with a major in oil painting, focusing on western style. However, he developed a great interest in graphics and dealt heavily with etchings, lithography, woodcut and screen printing. As early as 1970, even before graduating, he received his own exhibition for his copper engravings in a gallery in Tokyo's Ginza district. Other exhibitions followed as he teaches art at his university in the first two years after his graduation in 1971. He became known to Japanese artists and their styles and taught himself the technique of screen printing.Silkscreen printing quite soon became his favorite technique. Themes of his pictures are always Japanese festivals (matsuri), which he reflects in bright colors. In 1973 he made a first trip to Europe. In 1974 he exhibited 38 works in his own exhibition at Isetan in Shinjuku. In 1976 he was allowed to show his works in the "exhibition of 120 selected artists of today" (120 の 精 鋭 120, k 展 展, kyō no seiei 120-ninten) in Tōkyō Central Bijutsukan (東京 セ ト ラ ル 美術館) in the district Ginza. In the following year he had his the first exhibitions in Paris and Dusseldorf. In 1979 he traveled to the USA, where the local museums become aware of him and gradually bought and exhibited his works.
His international recognition and success are particularly evident in the 1980s, when his art was shown in a weekly from 1982 to 1991 on the front page of the Shūkan Shincho magazine, with a circulation of more than half a million copies. In 1983 during a state visit the Japanese government presented a silkscreen of TANAKA Masaaki to US-American Presidents Reagan.
TANAKA Masaaki's favorite topics are festival scenes. The artist had a larger number of solo exhibitions in Japan, Europe and America. His artworks are owned by the Chicago Art Institute, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Albrecht Fine Art Museum, the Japan Foundation and many others.
Personal life - He is the oldest son of TANAKA Toshiko and TANAKA Akio. In 1974 he married his former fellow student Chikako Inomata. Both spouses often exhibit together.
Aliases - none known
Disciples - none known
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Influenced by his father TANAKA Akio, he came into contact with painting at an early age and already won art competitions in elementary school. In 1967, he began his studies at the Musashino Art School west of Tokyo in Tokyo Prefecture with a major in oil painting, focusing on western style. However, he developed a great interest in graphics and dealt heavily with etchings, lithography, woodcut and screen printing. As early as 1970, even before graduating, he received his own exhibition for his copper engravings in a gallery in Tokyo's Ginza district. Other exhibitions followed as he teaches art at his university in the first two years after his graduation in 1971. He became known to Japanese artists and their styles and taught himself the technique of screen printing.Silkscreen printing quite soon became his favorite technique. Themes of his pictures are always Japanese festivals (matsuri), which he reflects in bright colors. In 1973 he made a first trip to Europe. In 1974 he exhibited 38 works in his own exhibition at Isetan in Shinjuku. In 1976 he was allowed to show his works in the "exhibition of 120 selected artists of today" (120 の 精 鋭 120, k 展 展, kyō no seiei 120-ninten) in Tōkyō Central Bijutsukan (東京 セ ト ラ ル 美術館) in the district Ginza. In the following year he had his the first exhibitions in Paris and Dusseldorf. In 1979 he traveled to the USA, where the local museums become aware of him and gradually bought and exhibited his works.
His international recognition and success are particularly evident in the 1980s, when his art was shown in a weekly from 1982 to 1991 on the front page of the Shūkan Shincho magazine, with a circulation of more than half a million copies. In 1983 during a state visit the Japanese government presented a silkscreen of TANAKA Masaaki to US-American Presidents Reagan.
TANAKA Masaaki's favorite topics are festival scenes. The artist had a larger number of solo exhibitions in Japan, Europe and America. His artworks are owned by the Chicago Art Institute, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Albrecht Fine Art Museum, the Japan Foundation and many others.
Personal life - He is the oldest son of TANAKA Toshiko and TANAKA Akio. In 1974 he married his former fellow student Chikako Inomata. Both spouses often exhibit together.
Aliases - none known
Disciples - none known
Copyright 2008 ff: Hans P. Boehme