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NAKAZAWA, Hideki
b.1963, Japanese artist.

He started his activities as an artist producing acrylic paintings while attending the Medical School of Chiba University, and began to win prizes and held solo shows. After graduation, he continued his artistic activities while working as an ophthalmologist, but in 1990, he switched to working with computer graphics and became Japan's first Heta-Uma (Bad-Good) style computer graphics illustrator. His cheap but pop style which was produced by using a 2D bitmap painting software became popular and was called "Silly CG." He won the MMA Artist Prize in the Multimedia Grand Prix '95, and his work has appeared in high-school textbooks on art.

In 1996, he applied for several patents by replacing and reconstructing the pixels in the world of 2D bitmap which he had been persuing with 3D, and made the world's first 3D bitmap software "Digital Nendo" (Digital Clay). In 1997, he further reconstructed pixels as abstract signs like letters, which allowed him to create a new style of painting, and moved on to become a fine art artist from a commercial artist. On January 1, 2000 he published "Methodicist Manifesto" with the presence of a poet and a musician, and called his works "Method Painting," and issued an email-bulletin "Method" which lasted through December 31, 2004. In 2002, he went to the U.S. with grants from the Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists. In 2003, he won the Premium Prize in VOCA. He has been calling his style "Serious Painting" since 2006 and is publishing new works including "Gray Painting," "Brainwaves Drawing" and "Cells."

Books "Text on Modern Art History" (1989), "The Lives of the Western Painters" (2001), "Contemporary Art History: Japan" (in Japanese and English, 2008). CD "Nakazawa Hideki Music Works" (2006).

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2009-01-01 Wrote.
Japanese | Hideki Nakazawa Bio