Eric Joisel Eric Joisel was born on November 15, 1956 and died on October 10, 2010. He is specialized in the wet-folding method of origami. He became a professional origami artist in 1992. Before he was an origami master, he sculpted, using stone and clay. He began drawing and sculpting when he was seventeen years old. He started creating origami in 1983 and then four years later, he had his first exhibit in the Espace Japon Paris. He was a French artist and sculptor who created stunningly beautiful and complex sculpted origami paper models. Most of his models are three-dimensional and life like. He was inspired by Arika Yoshizawa and made it almost like his style.
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Arika Yoshizawa He was born on March 14, 1911. He died on March 14, 2005. He was considered the grandfather of origami. He is credited with raising origami from a craft to a living art. He created more than 50,000 models,of which only a few hundred designs were presented as diagrams in his 18 books. Atarashii Origami Geijutsu, Origami Geijutsu-Sha Origami Reader I, Ryokuchi-Sha Dokuhon, Vol.1 (Origami Tokuhon), Sosaku Origami (Creative Origami), Nippon Hoso Kyokai Dokuhon, Vol.2 (Origami Tokuhon), Origami Dokuhon II (Origami Reader II), Kamakura Shobo are all of his books. Although Akira Yoshizawa pioneered many different origami techniques, wet-folding is one of his most significant contributions. Wet-folding is most often used with thicker paper, however. Normal origami paper is very thin and thus prone to tearing when using the wet-folding technique.
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