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Tarō Okamoto

1911 - 1996

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Tarō Okamoto (岡本 太郎, Okamoto Tarō, February 26, 1911 – January 7, 1996) was a Japanese artist, art theorist, and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tarō Okamoto has received more than 177,869 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Tarō Okamoto is the 1,344th most popular painter (down from 1,218th in 2019), the 985th most popular biography from Japan (down from 907th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Japanese Painter.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Tarō Okamoto ranks 1,344 out of 2,023. Before him are Auguste Herbin, Corneille de Lyon, Konstantin Savitsky, Christian Schad, Adam van Noort, and Tetyana Yablonska. After him are Jacques Aved, Vladimir Baranov-Rossine, Franz Roubaud, Martin Johnson Heade, François de Troy, and Jan de Bray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Tarō Okamoto ranks 167. Before him are Terry-Thomas, Gian Carlo Menotti, Wolfgang Larrazábal, René Barjavel, Guy Burgess, and Yang Jiang. After him are Xiao Hong, Broderick Crawford, Otakar Vávra, Heinz von Foerster, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, and Klára Dán von Neumann. Among people deceased in 1996, Tarō Okamoto ranks 151. Before him are Zulfiya, José Manuel Fuente, Inger Jacobsen, Danilo Alvim, Edmund Muskie, and Teodoro Fernández. After him are Léo Malet, Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, Ryōtarō Shiba, Chen Jingrun, Kiyoshi Atsumi, and Bernhard Klodt.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tarō Okamoto ranks 985 out of 6,245. Before him are Machiko Hasegawa (1920), Misuzu Kaneko (1903), Yoko Shimada (1953), Yukio Goto (null), Yasuhiko Okudera (1952), and Hiratsuka Raichō (1886). After him are Chiyonofuji Mitsugu (1955), Makino Nobuaki (1861), Kyōko Kagawa (1931), Akira Ifukube (1914), Nagayasu Honda (null), and Ryōtarō Shiba (1923).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Tarō Okamoto ranks 22. Before him are Utagawa Toyokuni (1769), Tawaraya Sōtatsu (1570), Torii Kiyonobu I (1664), Kuroda Seiki (1866), On Kawara (1932), and Kanō Motonobu (1476). After him are Katsukawa Shunshō (1726), Maruyama Ōkyo (1733), Hiroshi Yoshida (1876), Unkei (1151), Kanō Tan'yū (1602), and Toyohara Chikanobu (1838).

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