A Japanese grandfather who paints in Excel is referred to as "Excel Michelangelo" abroad



It has become a hot topic a few years ago and I have covered even GIGAZINE "Japanese artists drawing painting with Excel"aboutTatsuo HoriuchiMr. Up to now NHKMainichi NewspaperAlthough it has been picked up in a number of media, such as overseas mediaGreat Big StoryHowever, Mr. Horiuchi "Excel's Michelangelo"We introduce movies to introduce.

The Michelangelo of Microsoft Excel - YouTube


A number of paintings boasting of Mr. Tatsuo Horiuchi



Paintings with beautiful pale colors like watercolors line up.




These are what was drawn using spreadsheet Excel.



Tatsuo Horiuchi is now 77 years old


"Since I got the chance to get started, it was a challenge from the beginning," I thought, "How do I draw a picture on a PC?" I do not need money to buy paint, There is not it. "


"From such a stingy idea, if Excel is nice, I can do it with cheap printers," he says, motivated me to start painting in Excel. Furthermore, Mr. Horiuchi began to draw pictures in Excel seems to have retired from work at the age of 60.


Picture of the mountain painted in Excel in front of me ......


Completed by printing with a printer.



To draw a picture, draw a shape such as a mountain and a tree using a line tool usually used for creating a graph ......


We set the color on the line drawing and we will color the whole.


Then, in the end, it is possible to draw a picture of the moment the volcano erupts like the following.


Horiuchi-san who expresses the mountain reflected on the lake surface by reversing the paintings of the mountain he told while saying "One thing can be done, one can be found, now it can be done easily."


"I started drawing pictures in Excel since 2000, I set a goal, I will try to paint pictures that can be appreciated even for ordinary people in 10 years"


Horiuchi-san will showcase the many drawings I've painted in Excel.




Many things that depict nature, flowers, trees, mountains and many more appear.






"There are plenty of people to stumble," Why are you doing something useless, why are you doing it? "" Not stupid "


"I am stupid."


"There is no painting, you can draw if there is Excel"


"I do not understand that paintings are not easy to sell, but I do not know"



"I really appreciate it if there are people who will buy me a picture."


... ... while talking the movie is over. Mr. Horiuchi accepted Excel paintings, and from the Cabinet Office in FY2007Ageres chapterI am accepting.

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