Toshiko okanoue biography of martin
Toshiko okanoue biography of martin
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Toshiko Okanoue
Avant-garde artist (b. 1928)
Toshiko Okanoue (岡上 淑子, Okanoue Toshiko, born 3 January 1928) is a Japanese artist associated with the Japanese avant-garde art world of the 1950s and best known for her Surrealist photo collages.[1]
Early career
Born in Kochi and raised in Tokyo, Okanoue began to make photo collages while studying fashion and drawing at the Bunka Gakuin in Tokyo in the early 1950s.[2] The young Okanoue, initially knew little of art history or the Surrealist movement.[3]
In 1952, a classmate from Keisen Girls' High School introduced Okanoue to poet and art critic Shuzo Takiguichi,[a] a leading figure in the Japanese Surrealist movement, who would help introduce her to the wider art world, including the work of European Surrealists, such as German artist Max Ernst, who was an influence on her subsequent work.[1]
Over the next six years she would produce over 100 works.[6] She exhibit