Atsuko tanaka is regarded as one of the top veteran animators in japan. She is an actress, known for ghost in the shell 1995, ghost in the shell 2. Atsuko tanaka, akio otsuka, koichi yamadera, yutaka nakano. Atsuko tanaka 19322005 atsuko tanaka at the 1st outdoor exh. Tanaka is well known for her cool, deep, sometimes very alluring voice, which usually lands her roles of strong, professional. The following year, she entered the department of western painting at the kyoto municipal college of art now kyoto city university arts. Composed entirely of light bulbs of all shapes, sizes and colours, and a plethora of connected electrical cords, the electric dress resembles a postmodern christmas tree when not worn as was often the case.
Momas online collection see external links features a large, untitled 1964 tanaka work synthetic polymer paint on canvas. Read 38 galleries with character atsuko kagari on nhentai, a hentai doujinshi and manga reader. Join facebook to connect with atsuko tanaka and others you may know. The time has come for me to move on to the next chapter of my life. Atsuko tanaka is best known for voice acting motoko kusanagi from ghost in the shell. Hi, im atsuko tanaka, veteran japanese animator industry. Take a visual walk through her career and see 249 images of the characters shes voiced and listen to 8 clips that showcase her performances. After she joined the gutai art group in 1955, tanaka became influenced by the groups preoccupations with chance, time, and space. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. View over 112 atsuko tanaka artworks sold at auction to research and compare prices. We talked about her experiences working with animation directors, the state of the animation industry, and, well, food.
Atsuko tanaka was a japanese avantgarde artist best known for her neodada electric dress 1956, a garment made from hundreds of lightbulbs painted in primary colors. Atsuko tanaka in her studio in asukamura, nara, 1999 atsuko tanaka 19322005 was a prominent female member of gutai, the most important avantgarde artist collective in postwar japan. Atsuko tanaka was born on november 14, 1962 in gunma, japan. This decision was definitely not an easy one to make, but after 15 years i am ready to end. Atsuko tanaka, stage clothes, electric dress, gutai art on the stage, 1957. Atsuko tanaka, born atsuko sato on november 14, 1962, is a japanese voice actress which gained very substantial fame due to her role as major motoko kusanagi, as well as her impersonation of video game icon lara croft. Atsuko tanaka electric dress electric dress is a powerful conflation of the tradition of the japanese komono with modern industrial technology. Her mostknown voice role is motoko kusanagi in the ghost in the shell film and franchise and konan in the naruto series. The skillful blending of drawn animation and computer generated imagery excited anime fans when this science fiction mystery was. Ghost in the shell is a futuristic thriller with intense action scenes mixed with slower artistic sequences and many philosophical questions about ones soul, gender and human identity in such an advanced age of technology. I suffered through the last 3years in this sport as i fought with many injuries and some mental health issues but i have no regrets, i know in my heart that i gave the best i can and for me thats all that. Atsuko tanaka celebrity profile check out the latest atsuko tanaka photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes.
Finished off the weekend in whistler, one of the biggest events since the 2010 olympics was held at whistler olympic park for the womens side we had 2 fis cups, the first day i finished in 3rd and the second day of competition came in 2nd. The works of the gutai couple tanakakanayama show their mutual influence. View atsuko tanakas profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. This is a part of the wikipedia article used under the creative commons attributionsharealike 3. Atsuko sato, sato atsuko, born november 14, 1962, known professionally as atsuko tanaka, tanaka atsuko, is a japanese voice actress and narrator associated with mausu promotion formerly ezaki productions.
Atsuko tanaka 249 character images behind the voice actors. Atsuko tanaka s work is included in a number of internationally important public collections, including that of the museum of modern art, moma,in new york. Radical, pioneering and avantgarde, tanaka changed the postwar landscape as the foremost female artist in the gutai group. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover atsukos. Many of tanakas works involved electric light, the most famous of which, electric dress 1956. In 1956 atsuko tanaka came forward with her bestknown work, the electric dress. Untitled, 2001, untitled, 1983, untitled, 1980, 78b, 1978, untitled, 19641972, untitled, 1964, untitled, 1963, work, 1957, drawing after electric dress.
Castle of cagliostro, my neighbor totoro uncredited, kikis delivery service uncredited, porco rosso uncredited, princess mononoke, spirited away, howls moving castle, ponyo of the cliff by the sea, and the wind rises. Tanaka began to envision electric dress in 1954, when she outlined in a small notebook a remarkably prophetic connection between electrical wiring and the physiological systems that make up the human body. Atsuko tanaka is best known for her work electric dress 19561986, a functional garment made from hundreds of flashing lights and electrical cables, which completely subsumes its wearer in a captivating display of luminosity and color. Tanaka ended up as the top canadian in the inaugural olympic ladies normal hill event with her 12 th place finish. Atsuko tanaka studied at tokyo designer gakuin colleges animation department. Retrospective at guggenheim museum, new york february 24, 20 published on 24 feb 20 splendid playground is the title of a. Atsuko tanaka, one of japans most important avantgarde artists, died on dec. February 10, 1932 december 3, 2005 was a pioneering japanese avantgarde artist. In the year 2029, advances in cybernetics allow people to replace nearly all of their body parts and organs with robotics. Myanimelist is the largest online anime and manga database in the world. Be careful what you eatup the crazy riverto da dump, to da dump, to da dump dump dump 1993.
Atsuko tanaka, electric dress 1956 reconstructed, 1986, enamel paint on light bulbs, electric cords, and control console. Tv series key animator 2 episodes, 1998 background key designer 1 episode, 1998. In 1950, she enrolled at the art institute of osaka municipal museum of art. Originally inspired to become an animator by shows like the great adventure of horus, prince of the sun directed by isao takahata and space battleship yamato, atsuko tanaka attended the animation department at tokyo designer gakuin college. Stand alone complex, ryoko tamiya from parasyte the maxim, konan from naruto shippuden, caster from fatestay night, and lisa lisa from jojos bizarre adventure 2012. Retrospective at guggenheim museum, new york february 24, 20 published on 24 feb 20 splendid playground is the title of a retrospective at the guggenheim museum in new york. Media in category atsuko tanaka the following 18 files are in this category, out of 18 total. She was a central figure in the gutai art association, although her painting and performance art received relatively little international attention until the early 2000s, when she received her first solo show. Innocence 2004 starring atsuko tanaka and yutaka nakano on dvd and bluray. Atsuko tanaka was known best for her experimental clothing and performances.
Her mostknown voice role is motoko kusanagi in the ghost in the shell film and franchise and konan in. Adventures in slumberland 1989 princess mononoke 1997 the new batman adventures 1998 spirited away 2001 animation supervisor telecom animation film. She left college mid term to join shinei animation. See available paintings, works on paper, and prints and multiples for. Atsuko tanaka, tanaka atsuko, november 3, 1954 is a female japanese animator.
Tanaka was an early member of gutai, a radical group of osakabased artists founded in 1954. Subscribe to access price results for 150000 different artists. She made her early paintings by using commercially purchased cloth stretched into canvases. Tanaka is well known for her cool, deep, sometimes very alluring voice, which usually lands her roles of strong, professional women. Atsuko sato, known professionally as atsuko tanaka, is a japanese voice actress and narrator associated with mausu promotion. And it hurts my eyes that in this version, so much of the beautiful animation is replaced. Atsuko tanakas olympic dream began the day the ioc announced in april 2011 that a womens ski jumping event would be included on the program at sochi 2014. It sounds like a fire alarm or a highpitched human scream, startling, warning, terrifying, a harbinger of destruction. This piece formed the nucleus of a beautifully scaled retrospective at the museum of contemporary art tokyo, which traced tanakas creative trajectory. Tanaka seems to represent the multiple and scintillating nature of consciousness the electric dress, thoroughly widespread on the human morphology which is. She kept on creating work after she left the group in 1965, and achieved a true originality as an independent artist in her entire career. Atsuko tanaka team canada official olympic team website. Atsuko tanaka is a japanese voice actress known for voicing lisa lisa, motoko kusanagi, and bayonetta. Atsuko tanakas retrospective opens with work bell 1955, a lost piece that was recreated in 2000 and is presented beside a series of elegant preparatory drawings that plot the cogs, wooden wheels, and numbered sequences of its mechanical core.