Samizu Matsuki obituary
Samizu Matsuki, an award winning Japanese artist who retired to the Penobscot Bay region of Maine in 1993, passed away in her Rockland home on September 4, 2018 . A classical realist oil painter, Samizu played a brief yet important role in re-affirming the legitimacy of realistic oil painting as High Art in the New York City painting scene of the early 1970s drawing huge crowds to her entries at several national and international competitions. Samizu 's significance is in her returning the techniques of Western Classical Realism painting , as filtered through Japanese art schools since the 19th century, back to the West. She was born March 16, 1936 in the town of Uryu in Hokkaido,Japan, to educators Masue and Satoru Matsuki. Samizu was introduced early to western culture by her parents . The works of western influenced Japanese artists Ryusei Kishida ...