16 Facts About Tadashi Kaminagai

Tadashi Kaminagai was a Japanese painter, draftsman and mold maker who traveled through many countries and produced his works mainly in Japan, Brazil, and France, where he had exhibitions.

Tadashi Kaminagai was successful as a modurer, with a series of works for famous artists, but later became known for his work as a painter.

Tadashi Kaminagai influenced artists and was the teacher of some of them.

Tadashi Kaminagai's works were presented in national and international exhibitions.

Tadashi Kaminagai returned to Japan in 1938, but Foujita's advice made him move to Brazil after the outbreak of World War II, arriving in the country on the same day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, bringing with him a letter of recommendation addressed to Candido Portinari.

Tadashi Kaminagai was important to Fukushima's artistic formation; he was seen as his master.

Tadashi Kaminagai returned to Japan in 1954, and three years later he settled back in Paris.

Tadashi Kaminagai was important to the painter Jorge Mori, who, since childhood, already had an ability to paint and was introduced to Tadashi Kaminagai through Portinari.

In 1952, when Mori went to Paris, Tadashi Kaminagai recommended him in a letter to Foujita.

In Mori's words "Foujita talked about everything but painting, but Tadashi Kaminagai was different, he really taught me how to live".

In 1958, Tadashi Kaminagai is described as an "artist of greater production and greater gifts", who at that time had returned to Japan, and created paintings inspired by Brazil, with both urban and rural themes.

Tadashi Kaminagai was considered to be one of the last living Impressionists of the French school.

In 1981, Tadashi Kaminagai presented his works at the Latin American Salon and in 1982 he died of intestinal cancer at the Vaugirard Hospital.

Tadashi Kaminagai requested that when he died part of his ashes stay in Brazil.

Tadashi Kaminagai carried his painting with a lyricism that is, at the same time, a lesson of deep love for life.

Tadashi Kaminagai knew how to capture and transmit in his paintings the diversity of our landscape: the green and quietness of the Amazon, the bustle and brightness of Rio de Janeiro's beaches, the colorful architecture of Salvador and Sao Luis.