Hajime Sorayama
Hajime Sorayama (空山 基 Sorayama Hajime, born February 22, 1947) is a Japanese illustrator, known for his precisely detailed, erotic hand painted portrayals of women and feminine robots.
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Biography[edit]
Hajime Sorayama was born in 1947 in Imabari, Ehime prefecture, Japan.[1] He received his basic education at Imabari Kita High School. In 1965 he was admitted to the Shikoku Gakuin University,[1] where he began to study Greek and English literature.[2] In 1967, after the publication of his first work, Pink Journal, he transferred to Tokyo's Chuo Art School where he began to study art.
Sorayama graduated in 1968 at the age of 21, and gained an appointment in an advertising agency. He became a freelance illustrator in 1972.[1] In 1978 he drew his first robot. He resides in Tokyo.[2]
Notable works[edit]
Sorayama's work Sexy Robot, published by Genko-sha in 1983,[3] made his organic robotic forms famous around the world. For the work, he used ideas from pin-up art, which in the book then appear as chrome-plated gynoids in suggestive poses. His next book, Pin-up (Graphic-sha, 1984), continue in the same line. A number of his other works similarly revolve around figures in suggestive poses, including highly realistic depictions in latex and leather. His pinups appeared monthly for in the pages of Penthouse magazine and Playboy TV made a special show on Soryama arts. The period from 2000 to 2012 has included Sorayama's organic design of Sony AIBO robotic pet dog co-winning (with Sony) Japan's Grand Prize of best design awards (the highest design award conferred by Japan); Sorayama's Sony AIBO robotic pet design was placed into the permanent collections of MOMA and the Smithsonian Institute Museum; MOMA's published book "Objects of Design" by Paola Antonelli included Sorayama's and Sony's AIBO along with other noteworthy designs where form and function combine in harmony. AIBO is the first ever artificially intelligent robot pet. The NIKE "White Dunk Project" included Sorayama arts within 25 most inspiring Japanese artists.
In 1985 Sorayama published the video Illustration Video,[3] his first work apart from the books of illustrations. This includes works in the movies "Brain Dead" (1992), "Timecop" (1994) and "Space Trucker" (1995), design of trading cards, limited edition prints, CD Roms, art exhibitions and the initial industrial design for Sony's AIBO robotic pet,[4] as well as the cover art for Aerosmith's 2001 album Just Push Play.
From 1985 to 2012 has been a very busy period for Sorayama who released his new book Master Works in late spring of 2010 and is again working with movie makers in Hollywood, CA, USA on fantasy science fiction projects to be announced in 2012. During 2012 Sorayama worked on 3 notable new projects with American fashion designer Mark Ecko, one of the world's most famous science fiction moviemakers and a has publish a recent book "Vibrant Vixens" in May 2013. In 2013 to 2014 a special tribute to a famous magazine publisher who widely published Sorayama arts in the USA and worldwide will be undertaken (to be announced in detail).
Bibliography[edit]
- Pink Journal (1967)
- Sexy Robot (1983, Genko-sha)
- Pin-up (1984, Graphic-sha)
- Venus Odyssey (1985, Ed. Tokuma communications)
- Hajime Sorayama (1989, Taco, Berlín)
- Sorayama Hyper Illustrations (1 & 2) (1989, Bijutsu Shuppan-sha)
- The Gynoids (1993, Edition Treville)
- Naga (1997, Sakuhin-sha)
- Torquere (1998, Sakuhin-sha)
- Sorayama 1964-99. The Complete Works (1999, Sakuhin-sha)
- The Gynoids genetically manipulated (2000, Edition Treville)
- Gynoids reborn (2000, Edition Treville)
- Sorayamart (2000, Ed. Soleil)
- Moira (2000, Edition Kunst der Comics)
- Metallicon (2001, Sakuhin-sha)
- The Gynoids. The Storage Box (2002, Edition Treville)
- Venom (2002, Graphic-sha)
- Latex Galatea (2003, Editions Treville)
- Relativision (2006)[5][6]
- "Sorayama's Master Works", (late spring 2010 release) [7]
Quotes[edit]
"By contrast, superrealism deals with the technical issue of how close one can get to one's object."
"Unlike art, illustration is not a matter of emotion or hatreds, but an experience that comes naturally through logical thinking."[2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Sorayama's official biography http://www.sorayama.net/html/47_78.html
- ^ a b c http://www.thepinupfiles.com/sorayama.html
- ^ a b http://www.sorayama.net/html/1980s.html
- ^ http://www.sorayama.net/html/1990s.html
- ^ http://www.sorayama.net/artist_bio/biography.html
- ^ http://www.sorayama.com/en/?page_id=5 artist bibliography
- ^ http://www.sorayama.net/
- Sorayama's official website (contains adult artistic/explicit nudity)
- Sorayama's current website, since April 2007.
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