Perspective 2 L6 YH OG

Taro’s Suns Look To World Peace

Perspective II

Lesson 6

pg. 98

Multiple Choice

What is this monument called?

• Tomorrow’s Mythology

• Tower of the Sun

• Law of Jungle

• Heavy Industry

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Match

Match the following paintings

Wounded Arm

Law of the Jungle

Heavy Industry

Men Aflame

Tomorrow’s Mythology

• Wounded Arm

• Law of the Jungle

• Heavy Industry

• Men Aflame

• Tomorrow’s Mythology

Part 1

Multiple Choice

Where is “Tower of the Sun”?

• In Expo ‘70 Commemorative Park in Tokyo

• In Expo ‘80 Commemorative Park in Osaka

• In Expo ‘70 Commemorative Park in Osaka

• In Expo ‘80 Commemorative Park in Tokyo

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Tomorrow’s Mythology is ​

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meters in height,

​

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meters in width, and on permanent exhibit in ​

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5.5

30

Shibuya Station

70

20

Commemorative Park in Osaka

Commemorative Park

Osaka

Multiple Choice

About how many years was Okamoto Taro active in the art world of Paris

• 10

• 20

• 70

• 1932

Multiple Choice

What style of painting did Okamoto Taro do?

• Pablo Picasso

• Abstract

• Artists

• Summer of 1932

Draw

Draw your own abstract painting

Match

Match the following

• Outstanding

• Permanent

• Proceed

• Novelist

• Mythology

目立った

常設の

前進する

小説家

神話

• 目立った

• 常設の

• 前進する

• 小説家

• 神話

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He was the ( ? ) in Abstraction-Creation?

• moved by Picasso

• youngest member

• quest for a new style

• urge to confront Picasso

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• Two works by Okamoto Taro were especially outstanding. Tower of the Sun and Tomorrow's Mythology.

• Born in 1911, Taro was the eldest son of Okamoto Ippei and Kanoko.

• He entered Tokyo Fine Arts school but soon left for Europe where he continued his studies in Paris.

• In 1932, he became deeply moved by Picasso and felt the urge to confront and overcome him.

• He began his quest for a new style of abstract painting and became the youngest member of Abstraction-Creation.

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Part 2

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Right or Wrong

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Multiple Choice

Okamoto's interests extended beyond the issues of shape and form.

• Right

• Wrong

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He resumed artistic activities at the end of 1936.

• Right

• Wrong

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According to him, "beauty" had to be something that shook the viewer's values.

• Right

• Wrong

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In search of something with more "sense of reality," he produced Wounded Arm

• Right

• Wrong

Multiple Choice

Okamoto did not take part in the surrealist movement

• Right

• Wrong

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he concentrated on studying ethnology and psychology at the University of Paris

• Right

• Wrong

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he resumed artistic activities at the end of 1964

• Right

• Wrong

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He criticized the Japanese art world for remaining the same over the years.

• Right

• Wrong

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He referred to this as "the Stone Age of printing."

• Right

• Wrong

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he presented noteworthy works one after another, including Heavy Industry and Law of the Jungle.

• Right

• Wrong

Multiple Choice

In 1954, Okamoto wrote a controversial book titled Art Today.

• Right

• Wrong

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"Art today should be good. It should be pretty. It should be plesant."

• Right

• Wrong

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Match

Match the year to the event

• He produced Wounded Arm which was submitted to the International Surrealise Exhibition

• Okamoto returned to Japan as war approached Paris

• Okamoto resumed artisitic activities and criticized the Japanese art world

• Okamoto wrote Art Today, a controversial book.

1938

1940

1946

1954

• 1938

• 1940

• 1946

• 1954

Part 3

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The theme of the Japan World Exposition was "​

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​

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​

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​

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​

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.

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Progress

and

Harmony

for

Humankind

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The display in the ​

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of the tower ​

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the ​

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aspect of ​

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​

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basement

emphasized

primitive

diverse

cultures

Multiple Choice

Along with preparations for Expo '70, where was he requested to produce a huge mural?

• Europe

• Japan

• America

• Mexico

Match

Finish the statements

• He portrayed a skeleton

• He expressed the human force

• The mural was named

• He had been requested to

• all people could participate equally

burnt by an atomic bomb

trying to overcome the tragedy of the atomic bomb

Tomorrow's Mythology

produce a hug mural for a lobby

and express contradictions that they felt.

• burnt by an atomic bomb

• trying to overcome the tragedy of the atomic bomb

• Tomorrow's Mythology

• produce a hug mural for a lobby

• and express contradictions that they felt.

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単語

Multiple Choice

Humankind

• 人類

• 探求

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Law

• 法律

• 結局は

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Victim

• 民族の

• 犠牲者

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Diverse

• 多様な

• 進歩

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Surrender

• 工業

• 降状する

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Controversial

• 注目すべき

• 物議をかもす

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Abstract

• 抽象的な

• 博覧会

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Ethnology

• 不器用

• 民族学

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Strike

• 原始の

• 感動させる

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Demonstration

• 表明

• 純粋に

Speed Round Over

Part 4

Match

What do the three suns symbolize

The Past

The Future

The Present

• The Past

• The Future

• The Present

Multiple Choice

What doesn't the skeleton in Tomorrow's Mythology do?

• Look backward

• Roar with laughter

• Destroy human beings

• Laugh in their perils

Multiple Choice

Which is correct?

スペル

• Nuclear Profileration

• Nucler Proliferation

• Nuclear Proliferetion

• Nuclear Proliferation

Multiple Choice

Which year did Okamoto die?

• 1966

• 1699

• 1996

• 1999

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• Men Aflame and Moment showed how keenly interesterd in nuclear threat Okamoto was.

• Tomorrow's Mythology also shows that human beings are capable of laughing at perils.

• However his message was not simply antiwar or antinuclear.

• His works send a powerful message of life in this age of nuclear proliferation.

• In his later years, he was more or less ignored by the art world. But since his death, he has been re-appreciated.

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