Samizu Matsuki, A Life.
Samizu Matsuki, A Life. Posted: Friday, August 31, 2018 - 8:00a Samizu, a self portrait, 1970. Samizu Matsuki, an award winning Japanese realism artist, passed away in her Rockland home on August 4, 2018 . A classical realist oil painter, Samizu played a brief yet important role in reaffirming the legitimacy of realistic oil painting as High Art within 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 to the West its techniques of Western Classical Realism oil painting , as filtered through generations of Japanese artists including art educators since the 19th Century. She was born March 16, 1936 in the town of Uryu in Hokkaido, Japan, to educators Masue and Satoru Matsuk...
