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Tatsuo Ikeda, Creator of Disquieting Works About the Toll of War, Has Died at 92
December 11, 2020 Via artnews.com
Tatsuo Ikeda died in November at the age of 92. During his career as an artist he created beautiful, somber-looking drawings inspired by his experiences during World War II. Ikeda was born on August 25, 1928, in Saga Prefecture, Japan.
The news was announced by Ikeda's gallery, Fergus McCaffrey, which has locations in New York, Tokyo and St. Ikeda was a leading Japanese artist who became known for his collection of drawings: Anti-Atomic Bomb, Chronicle of Birds and Beasts, and Genealogy of Monsters.
Ikeda was selected as a kamikaze pilot in 1943, but luckily for the art world he was not sent on a last suicide flight before the end of the war. After that painful experience, Ikeda moved to Tokyo where he studied at Tama Art University. There he later joined the Vanguard Art Study Group of Taro Okamoto and Kiyoteru Hanada.
The three Japanese artists formed the “Seisakusha Kondankai” producers' discussion group that searched to create a new realism by d

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