MASAO OBATA ARTICLE | RAW VISION MAGAZINE

Masao Obata, courtesy Mizue Kobayashi

In Raw Vision Magazine #72 from 2011, Japanese writer Tadashi Hattori shares more about the practice of Japanese self-taught artist Masao Obata. This article came out after Obata’s passing and shares more about his works on cardboard. Read the full article as a PDF through the link below.

“He has frequently appeared in Japanese museums since then, and has become one of the most important and popular figures in the outsider art world in Japan. But despite his fame, little is known about him. We do not even know exactly when he first started to draw. We do know that he began drawing some time after he settled in Hifumi-en, a care house for the mentally disabled in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, in 1989.”