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Tatsuo Ikeda

Tatsuo Ikeda (Born 1928) is active/lives in Japan.  Tatsuo Ikeda is known for War themed drawings, scroll portraits, painting, sculpture, conceptual.

Tatsuo Ikeda was born in Saga Prefecture, Japan, in 1928. At the age of fifteen, in 1943, he was conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service; in the last weeks of World War II, he was selected as a kamikaze pilot, but he was not sent out on a suicide flight before the war ended. After being dismissed as a student teacher for his political views and status as a former kamikaze pilot, he moved to Tokyo to enter Tama Art and Design School in 1948. There he gradually became involved in Taro Okamoto and Kiyoteru Hanada’s Avant-garde Art Study Group.

Ikeda is part of a generation of artists emerging in the early 1950s who were emboldened to take back Japanese culture from the militarists, reclaim their own individuality after two decades of nationalistic brainwashing, and find new ways of expression. On the one hand, Gutai and Experimental Workshop took an apolitical stance in adopting a formal and conceptual approach to aesthetics; on the other, Ikeda, On Kawara, and Hiro   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4494 characters.]  Artist bio

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