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Masami Teraoka
Masami Teraoka | |
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Teraoka in 2011 | |
| Born | 1936 Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture |
| Education | Kwansei Gakuin University Otis College of Art and Design |
| Awards | National Endowment for the Arts American Academy of Arts and Letters |
| Website | masamiteraoka.com |
Masami Teraoka (born 1936) is an American contemporary artist. His work includes Ukiyo-e-influenced woodcut prints and paintings in watercolor and oil. He is known for work that merges traditional Edo-style aesthetics with icons of American culture.
Education
[edit]Teraoka was born in the town of Onomichi in okänt Prefecture. He studied from 1954–59 at the Kwansei Gakuin University in Kobe, Japan where he received his B.A. in Aesthetics. He moved to the United States in 1961. From 1964 to 1968 he attended and graduated from the Otis Art Institute, now the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, where he received a B.F.A. and M.F.A. He received an honorary doctorate in t
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Masami Teraoka was born in 1936 in Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan. He graduated in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts in Aesthetics from Kwansei Gakuin University, Hyogo, Japan. Teraoka continued his education in Los Angeles, earning a Bachelor of Arts (1964) and a Master of Arts (1968) from Otis College of Art and Design. In 2016, Otis awarded Teraoka an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts.
Teraoka’s work integrates reality with the surreal, humor with social commentary, and the historical with the contemporary. His early watercolors often focus on the cultural meeting of East and West evident in series that began in the 1970s such as “McDonald’s Hamburgers Invading Japan,” “New Views of Mt. Fuji,” and “31 Flavors Invading Japan.” The works on paper that define this period of his career reflect the impact of economic and cultural globalization. While sexuality is a recurring subject in his work, his representation of sex shifted from positiv
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Masami Teraoka: From Tradition to Technology, the Floating World Comes of Age
I can't remember where I first ran across a reference to this book, but I remember that it was the first time I'd heard of Teraoka, and I also remember that the screenshot of the cover drew me to put it on the ever-growing list of “stuff I want to read someday” (when I say ever-growing, I do not jest; that list now encompasses 30,748 titles according to my spreadsheet, minus a few duplicates I'm sure I haven't hunted down). And by the time I got round to it, I still hadn't heard of Teraoka in any way but that now-forgotten reference to this book, which is a bear to track down if your library system dropped out of Worldcat three years ago. Nevertheless, a little perseverance works wonders, and I finally got my hands on a copy recently.
Japanese-born, Ame