Hajime Sorayama (空山基, Sorayama Hajime, born February 22, 1947) is a Japanese illustrator, known for his precisely detailed, erotic airbrush portrayals of women and feminine robots.
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Biography
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,[2] where he began to study Greek and English literature.[3] 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.[4] In 1978 he drew his first robot. He resides in Tokyo.[5]
Notable works
Sorayama's work Sexy Robot, published by Genko-sha in 1983,[6] 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.
Bibliography
- 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)[7][8]
In 1985 Sorayama published the video Illustration Video, [9] his first work apart from the books of illustrations. This includes works in the movies "Brain Dead" (1992), "Time Cop" (1994) and "Space Trucker" (1995), design of trading cards, limited edition prints, CD Roms, art exhibitions and the design of the entertainment pet robot “AIBO” for Sony.[10]
He has appeared on numerous occasions on the cover of Airbrush Action magazine. The cover of Aerosmith's Just Push Play is based on a Sorayama design. A retrospective book of Sorayama's work is to be released in 2010.
In The Venture Bros. episode "Past Tense," a character named Mike Sorayama builds robots nearly identical to those depicted by Hajime. Sorayama is thanked in the episode's credits. In the South Park Series a short scene contains the world famous sexy robotic image. Star Trek series used Sorayama to design the female borg Romulan. He did art for the T3 Terminator movie/T3 Comics, Spawn 1997 and is now working on a new movie project. Perhaps, most famous is not a female form but the first generation of Sony AIBO robotic pets (first of their kind) which received the highest Japanese government award. Sorayama's art is in the permanent collections of MOMA and the Smithsonian Institute Museum. [11]
Quotes
"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."[12]
References
- ^ Sorayama's official biography http://www.sorayama.net/html/47_78.html
- ^ Ibid. http://www.sorayama.net/html/47_78.html
- ^ http://www.thepinupfiles.com/sorayama.html
- ^ Sorayama's official biography http://www.sorayama.net/html/47_78.html
- ^ Sorayama's biography in "thepinupfiles" http://www.thepinupfiles.com/sorayama.html
- ^ http://www.sorayama.net/html/1980s.html
- ^ http://www.sorayama.net/artist_bio/biography.html
- ^ http://www.sorayama.com/en/?page_id=5 artist bibliography
- ^ http://www.sorayama.net/html/1980s.html
- ^ http://www.sorayama.net/html/1990s.html
- ^ http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_secondary_images.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A22591&page_number=1&template_id=1&sort_order=1&sec_img=1
- ^ http://www.thepinupfiles.com/sorayama.html
- Sorayama's previous website (contains explicit material)
- Sorayama's current website, since April 2007.
- Sorayama´s official site
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