Tatsuo Ikeda “Mure”

Author birth and death: 1928 Imari (Saga) −2020 Tokyo
Year of production: 1958
Technique Materials: Ink, conte, light color, paper
Dimensions: 29.1×37.5cm
Signature: Signed and dated lower left "1958 Ikeda"

Exhibition history: “Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of Modern Art Collection Exhibition + University of Tsukuba Collection Ishii Collection Exhibition” Ibaraki Prefectural Tsukuba Museum of Art October 2007-10, 5 cat. 28; “Techniques on Paper: University of Tsukuba Collection Ishii Collection” Musashino City Kichijoji Museum of Art January 10, 2012 - February 1, 7 cat. 2; "Postwar Art Present Tense: Tatsuo Ikeda Exhibition - Elliptical Fantasy" Nerima Art Museum April 19, 8 - June 2018, cat. 4-26.

Literature: “Tatsuo Ikeda Art Collection 1947-2005”, 2006, Sekiosha cat. 062《Flock (Bijuki Series)》ill. p. 133; Edited by Rintaro Terakado “Ishii Collection I. Paintings in the University of Tsukuba”, University of Tsukuba Art Faculty of Science, 2011, cat. 70; Edited by Rintaro Terakado, “Ishii Collection Research 6: Tatsuo Ikeda,” University of Tsukuba School of Art, 2019, col. pl. p. 9; "Bijuuki series) and society and art in the 1950s", "Ishii Collection Research 6: Tatsuo Ikeda", 2019, pp. 46-60; supervised by Toshiharu Isodono, edited by Rintaro Terakado, "University of Tsukuba Art Collection Ishii Collection: A Feast of Beauty, University of Tsukuba Press, 2021, frontispiece 10; Fumihiro Sunohara, “Tatsuo Ikeda's Mure (Bijuki series) and the society and art of the 349s.” , A Feast of Beauty, pp. 367-XNUMX.

Collection number: 2005-JD-IS001

Work description:
Tatsuo Ikeda, who studied at Tama College of Art and Design (now Tama Art University) immediately after the war, began his full-scale publishing career in the mid-1950s.In particular, he traveled to the Tachikawa US military base and Uchinada in Ishikawa Prefecture, where he researched the opposition struggles he witnessed and worked on turning them into works.What resulted was a series of works such as ``Keiji of the Monsters'' and ``Bijuki,'' which poignantly satirize social reality.This work, in which strange shapes that are neither human nor animal, fill the screen, is one of the early representative works of the ``Birds and Beasts'' series.While attracting attention for his series of reportage painting movements, Ikeda was also active in a wide range of fields including stage art, design, and performance.