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Okamoto Tarō

Early Life and Education Born: Kawasaki, Japan (1911) Died: 1996 Okamoto Tarō began taking lessons in oil painting from the artist Wada Eisaku in 1927. In 1929, he entered the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (later Tokyo University of the Arts) in the oil painting department. A family trip to Europe in 1929 led him to spend time in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Paris, where he rented a studio and enrolled at a lycée. Parisian Inf

luences and Artistic Development Studied philosophy and aesthetics at the Sorbonne from 1932. Inspired by Pablo Picasso's "Pitcher and Bowl of Fruit" (1931), he began submitting paintings for exhibition at the Salon des Surindépendants. Became a member of the group Abstraction-Création in 1933. Influenced by Surrealism, participating in the International Surrealist Exhibition in Paris in 1938. Studied ethnology under Marcel…