'70's realism painting pioneer Samizu Matsuki paints new Jimi Hendrix portraits

Samizu Matsuki is an incredible and incredibly quiet and non assuming Japanese artist who played a pivotal though nearly invisible role in relegitimizing classical realism as an oil painting genre in New York City in the late 1960's and 1970s.

Samizu's mother Masue Matsuki was a "Modern Girl" of 1920's interwar Japan; her father the educator Satoru Matsuki was also part of the cultural revolution among young Japanese of that era, whose adoption of western clothing, culture and mass consumerism both galvanaized and alarmed Japanese society of the time. So too was her art teacher Setsuko Migishi at the Women's College of Fine Arts a Modern Girl; she who immersed her pupil in the western classical art tradition. For indeed, Samizu Matsuki, in her magically evocative realistic oil paintings,  can be considered as one of the culminating flowers of the Modern Girl philosophy, brought back,  to the American cultural capital of the 1960s and 70's: New York City


Samizu, presently living in the Midcoast Maine city of Rockland,  has just completed the first of a pair of portraits of Rock and Roll superstar Jimi Hendrix, the first as a gift to her friend and ex-husband Ron Huber, the second? Time will tell



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