Masuo Ikeda，池田满寿夫生于1934年， 在日本长野的艺术学校学习，专注于版画和平面艺术。1966，努力终于使他被威尼斯的Biennale授与平面艺术的大奖。1968
年，他是艺术家的国际展览会展现作品最年轻的艺术家之一,他将同时期的日本传统艺术和欧洲艺术文化结合起来，后来的十年里，形成为新一代日本艺术概念和推动日本艺术发展的重要记号。
池田满寿夫更被誉为60年代写实主义艺术的代表人物。
笔者非常喜欢Ikeda的版画和插画巧妙地融合成为有意思的平面设计，30－40年前的作品今天仍然有着无限的创造性和活力！
Ikeda
was born in Manchuria. From 1952
to 1953 he studied at the National Painting Association Fine Arts Research
Institute in Tokyo. In 1955 he met the painter Kyu Ei, and in 1956 he became
a member of Ei’s Demokurato Bijutsuka Kyokai (Democratic Art Society), a group
of avant-garde artists. Iin 1956 he began on Ei’s recommendation to produce
copperplate etchings. He won prizes at the second, third and fourth Tokyo
International Print Biennales. In 1961 he received the Award of Excellence
at the Deuxième Biennale de Paris, an exhibition of young artists. In 1965
a one-man exhibition of Ikeda’s prints was held at MOMA in New York, and a
year later he received the Grand Prize in the print section of the Venice
Biennale. In 1972 he settled in New York. In 1983 the exhibition Erosu ni
Sasagu—Ikeda Masuo no Shirarezaru Sekai
