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ID: 500041100 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500041100			Record Type: Person

Okamoto, Tarō (Japanese painter, 1911-1996)

Note: Studied briefly at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, then relocated to Paris from 1929-1940 where he became involved with the Abstraction-Création group. Okamoto and Kurt Seligmann developed their own theory of 'Neo-Concretism.' While in Paris Okamoto also attended classes in ethnology at the Sorbonne. He was influenced by the Surrealists in Paris and associated with Breton, Aragon and Ernst. He later published writings on Buddhist mysticism and created a theory of 'Non-Sense.' The Nazi occupation of Paris in 1940 caused his return to Japan, where he became an important influence on Japanese art after the war. In the 1950s he produced ceramic tile murals for public spaces in Tokyo.

Names:
	Okamoto, Tarō (preferred,V,index,English-P,NA,U)
	Tarō Okamoto (V,display)
	Okamoto Tarō (V,Japanese (transliterated)-P,NA,U)
	Okamoto, Taro (V,English,NA,U)
	Okamoto, Taro (Japanese (transliterated),NA)
	Okamoto, Taro (Dutch-P,NA)
	Taro Okamoto (V)
	Okamato, Taro (V,English,NA,U)
	Taro Okamato (V)
	Ohtake, Shinro (V)
	Shinro Ohtake (V)
	岡本, 太郎 (V,Japanese-P,NA)

Nationalities:
	Japanese (preferred)
	Asian

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	painter
	muralist
	ceramicist
	writer
	theorist

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Tokyo (Tōkyō, Japan) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

collaborated with ....	Seligmann, Kurt
................................	(American painter, engraver, and illustrator of Swiss birth, 1900-1962) [500022797]

member of ....	Abstraction-Création
................	(International group of artists, active 1931-1936 in Paris) [500125031]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Okamoto, Tarō (I)

Biographies:


	(Japanese painter, 1911-1996) ..... [VP Preferred] (Westernized Oriental artist, 1911-) ..... [WCP] (Japanese painter b.1911) ..... [GRLPA] (Westernised Oriental artist, born 1911) ..... [WL-Courtauld] (Japanese painter) ..... [Grove Art] (artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC] (Japanese painter, 1911-1996) ..... [TNRICP] (Japanese painter, 1911-1996) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

岡本, 太郎 ........	[TOBUNKEN]
............	Tobunken database (n.d.)

Ohtake, Shinro ........	[GRISC Preferred]
..............................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Okamato, Taro ........	[VP, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
............................	Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
............................	Witt Library, Authority files

Okamoto, Taro ........	[GRISC, GRLPA Preferred, RKD Preferred, TOBUNKEN Preferred, VP]
............................	Bénézit Dictionary of Artists: English Edition (2006) 10:553
............................	Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976)
............................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
............................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 99782
............................	Tobunken database (n.d.)

Okamoto Tarō ........	[VP]
..........................	Tomii, 1,000-Yen Note Incident, Positions (2002)

Okamoto, Tarō ........	[Grove Art Preferred, VP Preferred]
............................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
............................	Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 25 September 2006
............................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) NAFL81061637; accessed 25 September 2006

Shinro Ohtake ........	[GRISC]
............................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Taro Okamato ........	[VP, WL-Courtauld]
..........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Taro Okamoto ........	[GRISC, VP]
..........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..........................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Tarō Okamoto ........	[VP]
..........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules


Note:
English	..........	[VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	Bénézit Dictionary of Artists: English Edition (2006) 10:553
	..........	Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 25 September 2005

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