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Born 1948 Maibara, Japan. Known for: Pop-art commercial images, automobiles, lazar installation.
The following information was submitted February 2006 by Norman Davies, art scholar and book dealer from Torrance, California. His source is the book Hiro Yamagata Earthly Paradise, by Edward... Read full biography
The following information was submitted February 2006 by Norman Davies, art scholar and book dealer from Torrance, California. His source is the book Hiro Yamagata Earthly Paradise, by Edward Leffingwell. At the age of nineteen he left his home in Malbara, Japan near Kyoto, and began his travels.... Read full biography
The following information was submitted February 2006 by Norman Davies, art scholar and book dealer from Torrance, California. His source is the book Hiro Yamagata Earthly Paradise, by Edward Leffingwell. At the age of nineteen he left his home in Malbara, Japan near Kyoto, and began his travels. First he went to Tokyo where he stayed for five years and assisted a professor and worked in advertising as an illustrator for Coca Cola and Automotive companies. Then he went to Milan, and at age 24,... Read full biography
The following information was submitted February 2006 by Norman Davies, art scholar and book dealer from Torrance, California. His source is the book Hiro Yamagata Earthly Paradise, by Edward Leffingwell. At the age of nineteen he left his home in Malbara, Japan near Kyoto, and began his travels. First he went to Tokyo where he stayed for five years and assisted a professor and worked in advertising as an illustrator for Coca Cola and Automotive companies. Then he went to Milan, and at age 24, arrived in Paris in 1972. There he met many writers and musicians that had some influence on his work, and he was introduced to the French Poet Jacques Prevert, whose influence took shape in Yamagata's paintings. Yamagata said: "Everything is put in... Read full biography
The following information was submitted February 2006 by Norman Davies, art scholar and book dealer from Torrance, California. His source is the book Hiro Yamagata Earthly Paradise, by Edward Leffingwell. At the age of nineteen he left his home in Malbara, Japan near Kyoto, and began his travels. First he went to Tokyo where he stayed for five years and assisted a professor and worked in advertising as an illustrator for Coca Cola and Automotive companies. Then he went to Milan, and at age 24, arrived in Paris in 1972. There he met many writers and musicians that had some influence on his work, and he was introduced to the French Poet Jacques Prevert, whose influence took shape in Yamagata's paintings. Yamagata said: "Everything is put in the image". He does not express interest in talking about a... Read full biography
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Keywords (18)
Art Method
- •Installation Art
- •Poster Art, Poster Design
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Bronze
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Pop Art, Popular Culture
- •Sophisticated Naive, Primitive
Art Subject
- •Sports Figures, Athletes, Genre, Events
- •Vehicles: Automobiles/Trucks and/or Motorcycles
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
- •Japan
Art School
- •Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Commercial Art and Design
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Japanese