We at Mimikama don't deal much with spreadsheets and this Japanese guy doesn't either... it's all the more impressive what he can achieve with Excel instead!

The 77-year-old Japanese artist Tatsuo Horiuchi “paints” true works of art in Excel and, according to Motherboard , he even won a prize for one of his paintings in 2006. It's truly amazing what this man can do with the functionality of this software. He prefers to paint traditional Japanese motifs and landscapes.

When Horiuchi retired in 2000, he wanted to paint. But he had neither the desire nor the money to invest in expensive drawing programs or brushes, paint and canvases. So the pensioner decided to use what he found on his computer: Paint and Excel. After Paint was too complicated and didn't offer the features he needed for his paintings, he decided to use spreadsheet software. Horiuchi taught himself everything he could do in Excel because he had never needed the program for the work he did before.

His original goal when he retired was to paint a picture within ten years that he could show others. And he achieved this goal in 2006 and won first place in an art competition!

His artwork has now been exhibited at the local art museum and if anyone would like to purchase a painting from him, it would of course be greatly appreciated.

It's really fascinating what Tatsuro Horiuchi has discovered for himself here. With the simple means at his disposal, he created a completely new dimension of digital art! He shows that age is just a number and that with patience, passion and will something very special can be achieved.

Great Big Story conducted an interview with the creative Japanese:


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