Shogo okamoto biography of christopher columbus

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: The Life Of The Admiral Christopher Columbus By His Son

The other day, I visited Gallery Marronnier to see Kogei Art Kyoto artist Mr. Shogo Okamoto&#;s solo exhibition.

Mr. Okamoto is the eldest son of Menya Shoho, the 14th generation of the Mensho family. This lineage of doll makers dates back to the Hoei era () of the Edo period.

He is engaged in creating traditional Kyoto dolls and contemporary artworks that draw on the techniques and spirit of doll-making.

This solo exhibition is entitled &#;Creation of Heaven and Earth,&#; based on the theme &#;Can we create the shape of a human being without creating heaven and earth &#; doll makers?

The first exhibit, entitled &#;Floating Clouds&#;—Life-Size Clouds, is a mixed-media work using cotton and other materials.

Cotton is also a material used to make doll cushions.
Suspended by a single piece of string creates a natural floating feeling, creating a cozy space.

On the same floor, in a glass mini-case exhibit titled “STONE Petrify 0,&#; a &#;stone&#; imitating a natural stone is displayed using the technique of Kyoto dolls.

Mr. Okamoto describes these works

The &#;stones&#; displayed here are m

Christopher Columbus (–)  was an Italian explorer, colonizer, and navigator. He is remembered as the principal European discoverer of the Americas and he helped bring the Americas to the forefront of the western consciousness. His discoveries and travels laid the framework for the later European colonisation of Latin and North America.

“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

– Christopher Columbus

Short bio Christopher Columbus (–)

Christopher Columbus was born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today Northwestern Italy. His father was a middle-class wool merchant, though it was relatively humble beginnings for what he later became. Columbus learnt to sail from an early age and later worked as a business agent, travelling around Europe to England, Ireland and later along the West coast of Africa. He was not a scholar but was an enthusiastic self-educated man, who read extensively on astronomy, science and navigation. He also became fluent in Latin, Portuguese and Spanish.

Christopher Columbus was a believer in the spherical nature of the world (some Christians still held the view that the world was flat). An ambitious

Printmaker Shogo Okamoto was born in Tokyo, Japan, in He graduated from the National Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts with a degree in oil painting. It wasn't until that he began studying etching and aquatint techniques, and in he held his first one-man show of prints. In he was invited to participate in the Nippon Hanga Kyokai's annual exhibition and by he had become a full member of the group.

The s and s proved to be Okamoto's most active period. In he was selected for inclusion in several prestigious exhibitions, including at the Musee national d'Art Moderne in Paris and Gallery Papier in Tokyo, and from to he regularly held solo exhibitions at the gallery of the Hendricks Art Collection, Ltd., in Bethesda, Maryland. His work was also exhibited in Canada, France, China. In , he took at teaching position in China, as well. By the s Okamoto scaled back his printmaking and little is known about his activity at this point. He died in Tokyo in

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