Integrating traditional imagery and subject matter with pop art, Teraoka casts contemporary issues—from AIDS to computers, environmental degradation, and drive-by shootings—in historical guise. Humor and satire combine with a vibrant iconography drawn from Japanese and Western sources—catfish, trickster, fox, ghost, snake, ninja, samurai, geisha, Adam and Eve, punk rockers, and television. Teraoka's work moves from the indulgent pleasures of ukiyo, or the "floating world" of ancient theater and pleasure houses, to a chastened consciousness of death and evil with a majestic virtuosity unique in contemporary art.
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Pop art blends with traditional Japanese woodcut style in a fine volume which displays the extent of Teraoka's talents in blending modern concerns with traditional representations. Any studying Japanese art will find Teraoka's style an intriguing blend of choices, using historical precedence to create strong renditions of modern subjects. An exciting presentation. -- Midwest Book Review
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James T. Ulak, associate professor of Japanese art at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, has an abiding interest in Japanese narrative painting.
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The Unique Gifts of Masami Teraoka,
By Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Paintings By Masami Teraoka (Paperback)
For those who have been observing the manner in which artist Masami Teraoka has been addressing political and sociological issues for the past years this big book that reproduces much of his art is a must. Teraoka, born in 1936 in the town of Onomichi in Hiroshima prefecture, 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 and from 1964-68 attended 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. Teraoka gained national attention with his fearless ability to address the AIDS plague in the 1980s with his signature ukiyo-e influenced woodcuts of geishas at sea with condoms and other pointedly sophisticated yet humorous images of characters dealing with physical protection. But his ability to create parodies on the American way of life include his Japanese characters snorkeling, consuming MacDonald's hamburgers, Baskin-Robbins 31 flavors ice cream cones, computers, obsession with television, and social and sexual mores, all created with such skill that they appear to be ancient Japanese Edo period ukiyo-e woodcuts. Teraoka's talent does no stop with his comical works. His paintings of religious altars have an enormous impact on the viewer, so skilled are they in approaching yet another period of art. His ability to make starkly confrontational comments with his art is what sets him aside from other painters. This book is well representative of much of his output - despite the fact that it is now 15 years old! Grady Harp, September 11
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