Earth Attack 1

PYTHAGORAS³(C), Eye and Lip of a Human Bird

PYTHAGORAS³(B), Eye of Dragonfly

PYTHAGORAS³(A), The Three Soldiers Fight with Grace as if Cherry Flowers Scatter. The Music Arithmetic Strategy of PYTHAGORAS³

2013, Acrylic on canvas, Collection of the Artists

Outline

"Earth Attack" is a painting project undertaken by a group of ten artists centering on Okamoto Shinjiro (born in Tokyo in 1933), one of the leading Japanese Pop artists of the 1960s. (The remaining nine artists are Isaka Yoshio, Ichikawa Giichi, Otsubo Miho, Kobori Reiko, Shimizu Yoko, Shirai Miho, Matsumoto Akira, Yamaguchi Keisuke, and Wang Shuye.) The project was inspired by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. The project deals with the theme of how bombs and war have affected the earth and its inhabitants, from the Great Tokyo Air Raids and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to the various conflicts that are currently underway all over the world. The works are distinguished by airy expressions, which stand in contrast with the severity of the subject. We present a series of approximately 150 works, totaling some 200 meters in length, which required 17 years to complete.

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Catalog

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Earth Attack

Writers: Takeshi Kanazawa / Tadayasu Sakai / Noi Sawaragi / ReikoTomii / Yuri Mitsuda / Masahiko Ha1to

Translation: Pamela Miki Associates (pp. 006-007, 058-075, 084-101) / Reiko Tomii (pp.076-082)

Editors: Masahiko Haito / Haruka Nakano [Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art] / Reita Hirase [Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art]

Editor and Proofreader: Fuyuki Ono

Photographs: Tetsuo Ito

Design: Toshiki Koike

Printing: SunM Color Co, Ltd

Binding: Shinoharashikou Ltd

Publisher: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art / The Chunichi Shimbun

Published in January 31, 2020