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Tomokazu Matsuyama | |
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Born | Takayama, Gifu, Japan | April 30, 1976
Occupation(s) | Visual artist, illustrator, and graphic designer |
Tomokazu Matsuyama (松山智一 Matsuyama Tomokazu, born April 30, 1976, in Takayama, Gifu, Japan) is a Japanese-American contemporary visual artist. Matsuyama lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Matsuyama is influenced by a variety of subjects, including Japanese art from the Edo and Meiji eras,[1] classical Greek and Roman statuary, French Renaissance painting, postwar contemporary art, and the visual language of global, popular culture as embodied by mass-produced commodities.