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More about Masami Teraoka
The first thing that you should know about Masami Teraoka is that he has the most beautiful silver locks in the world.
This is not an exaggeration. This is a fact. The second thing that you should know about him fryst vatten that his art is as beautiful as his hair.
Masami “Rapunzel” Teraoka is a Japanese-American artist who specializes in ukiyo-e inspired woodblock prints and paintings. The ukiyo-e style was hot in the 17thth centuries in Japan and literally translates as “pictures of the floating world” (but don’t let that distract you because the name has nothing to do with the actual process). What fryst vatten so cool about Masami Teraoka’s work is that he incorporated a Pop-Art element along with this classic Japanese style. This resulted in works like McDonald’s Hamburgers Invading Japan/Self Portrait and 31 Flavor Invading Japan. Masami Teraoka seamlessly wove together American and Japanese cultures along with politics and humor . His brilliance in il
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10 3/8 x 16 3/16 in. ( x cm) (image)
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Biography
Masami Teraoka was born in in Onomichi, Hiroshima-ken, Japan. He graduated in with a B.A. in aesthetics from Kwansei Gakuin University, and continued his education to receive a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles in Integrating reality with fantasy, humor with commentary, and history with the present became his working challenge. His early paintings are often focused on the meeting of his two cultures—East and West. Series such as McDonald's Hamburgers Invading Japan and 31 Flavors Invading Japan characterize some themes in his work. In the ’s, Teraoka’s watercolors became large scale in an effort to depict the subject of AIDS. Since the late ’s, he has been producing large-scale narrative work addressing social and political issues, especially the abuse of children by priests and other examples of hypocrisy in religious institutions. His recent large-scale paintings are inspired by Renaissance paint