太ヶ の | What was "beauty”for Okamoto? interests extended beyond Eventually、 Okamoto's 1 Tn search of something the issues of color and form. with more “sense of reality,” he produced Mozec 477x and broke away from purely abstract painting. This painting caught Andre Breton's eye and was submnitted s to the International Surrealist Exhibition held in 1938. But Okamoto did not take part im the surrealist movement either. Struck by the beauty of folk arts from around the world, he concentrated on studying ethnology and philosophy at the University of Paris rather than painting pictures. Andi@ Breton (1896-1966) 講