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Masami Teraoka

Masami Teraoka (Born 1936) is active/lives in California, Hawaii / Japan.  Masami Teraoka is known for Pop-oriental genre-views, prints.

Masami Teraoka is widely known for his watercolor paintings created in the style of Japanese woodblock prints.  His canvases display detailed images of traditional geisha and samurai placed in a modern context surrounded by popular American icons.  This contemporary artist was born in 1936 in the town of Onomichi, between Hiroshima and Osaka, Japan.  His mother came from a family of artists and his father was a talented musician who ran the family kimono fabric store.  After high school Teraoka studied Aesthetics at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan.  In 1961 he moved to Los Angeles, California to concentrate on his artistic career.  He enrolled in the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, and after seven years graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Masters degree.

Teraoka's style developed out of his interest in Japanese ukiyoe prints as well as the contemporary popular art of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.  The traditi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2663 characters.]  Artist bio

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