Saburo Muraoka
Japanese sculptor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Saburō Muraoka was a Japanese modern and contemporary artist born in Osaka. Career Known primarily as a sculptor, Muraoka first received artistic recognition in 1949 as a student at the Osaka City Art Institute , a school associated with Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, with his plaster bust "Neck." With this work he received the second Osaka Mayor prize while exhibited at the annual Osaka City Exhibition. He became affiliated with the Nika Society in 1950 and showed in the annual Nika Exhibition from 1950 until 1969 when he withdrew from the Society. At a young age he became fascinated by astronomy, an interest that would turn into an ongoing engagement with the sciences in his artistic practice. His experiences as a youth during and after the Second World War, during which his brother died in Manchuria, also influenced his decision to become an artist. He is known for his use of unusual materials such as iron, sulfur, salt, and oxygen tanks, as well for his aesthetic engagement with dynamic qualities like heat, vibration, and decay to capture "the delicate equilibrium of both life-forming and destructive natural forces." An early example of Muraoka's artistic approach of manipulating states of matter is his "July 1954" for which he is credited with producing the first welded sculpture in Japan. This work is now a part of the permanent collection at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
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