For quite some time now I have been featuring artist on my facebook page.
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I also have a page on art and photos that I create myself . The page is called Artist /Photographer Victoria Miller
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Today's artist is male normally I just present female artist as They are still not so recognised in the art world but it has improved a great deal. I had to show you Akio Takamori I simply love his work I found him accidentally while looking at ceramic artist and fell in love with his work. So please enjoy the information I have given you to read and some examples of his work.

Takamori was born in Nobeoka, MiyazakiJapan in 1950. The son of an obstetrician/gynecologist who ran a clinic, Takamori was exposed to a wide range of people from an early age. At home, his father’s extensive library of both art and medical texts became a fascination for Takamori, who relished everything from Picasso reproductions to anatomical charts.
Takamori’s interest in the arts persisted into early adulthood and upon his graduation from the Musashino Art College in 1971, he apprenticed to a master folk potter at Koishiwara, Kyushu. While learning the craft of industrial ceramics in a factory setting, he saw a traveling exhibition of contemporary ceramic art from Latin America, Canada, and the United States. Blown away by what he describes as the “antiauthoritarian” quality of the work, Takamori began to question his future as an industrial potter. When renowned American ceramist Ken Ferguson visited the pottery, the two had an immediate rapport and Ferguson encouraged Takamori go to the United States and study with him at the Kansas City Art Institute.
In 1974 Takamori made the move to the United States, receiving his B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute and later attending Alfred University in New York for his M.F.A. After working as a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana, he moved to SeattleWashington in 1993, where he took his current teaching position as associate professor of the ceramics department.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akio_Takamori


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