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by Emika Suzuki
TATSUO IKEDA. Photo by Gallery 58, Tokyo. Image via Instagram.
Tatsuo Ikeda, a pioneering Japanese artist who depicted the horrors of war with images of disquieting creatures, passed away on November 30 from aspiration pneumonia, aged 92. His death was first reported on December 7 by
An influential figure of Japan’s postwar political art that emerged during the 1950s, Ikeda satirized the atrocities of war in his earlier works, as well as the United States’ presence in Japan and the Japanese government’s abuse of power at the time. This was exemplified in ink drawings such as
10,000 Count (1954), depicting grotesque fish mutated due to an American nuclear bomb test at Bikini Atoll. Similarly,