Aimitsu
Sign in to saveAlso known as Nichirō Ishimura, Nichirō Aikawa, Ai Mitsu, Mitsurō Aikawa, Ai-Mitsu, Mitsuro Aikawa, Akiro Ishimura, Nichiro Ishimura
Ai-Mitsu () (June 24, 1907 - January 19, 1946) was a Japanese artist and painter. He was also known as Akemitsu or his birth name, Nichiro Ishimura (). He is usually identified as a Surrealist although he also painted works that can be classified in other styles and genres.
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- Born
- 1907
- Died
- 1946
- Works
- 5
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Hiroshima
- Place of death
- Shanghai
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Field of work
- painting
- Genre
- Yōga
- Image
- Aimitsu-Photograph of Aimitsu.png
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- has works in the collection
- Tokyo National Museum
- date of birth
- 1907-06-24
- date of death
- 1946-01-19
- Commons category
- Aimitsu
- cause of death
- malaria
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- Aimitsu
- name in native language
- 靉光
- birth name
- 石村 日郎
- pseudonym
- 靉川 光郎
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Ai-Mitsu () (June 24, 1907 - January 19, 1946) was a Japanese artist and painter. He was also known as Akemitsu or his birth name, Nichiro Ishimura (). He is usually identified as a Surrealist although he also painted works that can be classified in other styles and genres.
He was born into a small landowning family in 1907 in Hiroshima, and given the name Nichiro Ishimura, which he later changed to Ai-Mitsu when he moved to Tokyo to pursue his career as an artist. In 1934 he married Kie, a teacher of the deaf who helped support him through his struggles as an artist. His most famous work is "Landscape with an Eye" (1938), currently held in the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. It consists of shapeless forms with a large eye in a landscape setting.
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