Audio Recordings of Samizu Matsuki. (mp3s)

Samizu recounts life in 1962 as an Air Force bride and artist.

Samizu Matsuki describes the painting of "Opia". April 18, 1989, interview.

Samizu Matsuki on her theory of painting, March 30th, 2008 interview.

Samizu Matsuki interview 4/16/08 Part 1 Describes her paint supplier; importance of using paints that meet the "Louvre standard" for paint quality that will last 5 centuries; contrasts Japanese and American minds and mindsets..

Samizu Matsuki interview4/16/08 Part 2. describes 1958 influence of French Academician painters on Japanese art education, how the methods of creating unique colors was kept secret by each artist from all but his or her disciple; the encyclopedia movement; how the mass production of art supplies, including the invention of artificial pigments of all colors, was an important moment in the history of art ; how art as part of general education began as a curriculum item in Japanese public schools, then as a discipline in Japan's universities. How, to be qualified for the Louvre, a painting's colors should be able to last 500 years. Recorded April 16, 2008, Rockland Maine.