縄文を調べる内に、岡本太郎さんの姿を思い出した。「芸術は爆発だ！」何度テレビで見ただろう。渋谷駅の中にある岡本太郎さんの巨大なアート（2008年）を度々目にして　強烈な印象を、いつも新鮮な気持ちで眺めていた。少し得した気分で。

岡本太郎と縄文　solid sky　2018/08/05

逆に岡本太郎さんが気が付かれた縄文の魅力を知ろう。

お話を聴いていると岡本太郎さんが縄文土器の芸術性を初めて

高く評価された人であった。あの渦巻き模様は　ずいぶん奥が深いようだ。

生きるという美なのか？

 

Anti-Picaso ピカソ。抽象と具象。対極主義。民俗学。人間のエネルギー。なるほどと思う。

これで縄文文化は広がりを得た。

 (岡本 太郎 Okamoto Tarō, February 26, 1911 – January 7, 1996)

時々音声が途切れ、音が飛んだりだが最後まで　面白く、勉強になった。　Mellow In Japan　2018/02/14

Tarō Okamoto was a Japanese artist noted for his abstract and avant-garde paintings and sculpture.

Taro Okamoto is the son of cartoonist Ippei and  writer Kanoko Okamoto.　He was born in Takatsu

village, in Kawasaki, Kanagawa prefecture.

 

He studied at Panthéon-Sorbonne in the 1930s, and created many works　of art after World War II.

He was a prolific artist and writer until his death.　Tarō Okamoto Museum in Tokyo Among the artists

Okamoto associated with during his stay in Paris were André Breton (1896–1966), the leader of

Surrealism,　and Kurt Seligmann (1900–62), a Swiss Surrealist artist, who was the

Surrealists’ authority on magic and who met Okamoto’s parents, Ippei and Kanoko Okamoto,

during a trip to Japan in 1936. Okamoto also associated with Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Robert Capa

and Capa’s partner, Gerda Taro, who adopted Okamoto’s first name as her last name.