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The Bear Wants you to Stop Fighting
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 33 x 33 x 3 cm Painting - 13 x 13 x 1.2 inch
$682
Rhododendron, SSM
Minako Asakura
Fine Art Drawings - 22.7 x 22.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.9 x 8.9 x 0 inch
$796
No Title #032322
Kunihiko Maehara
Fine Art Drawings - 50.8 x 55.88 x 3.81 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 22 x 1.5 inch
$2,146
Dinner and a Movie
Anthony Dunphy
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.8 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.3 inch
$760
Emotional Landscape 5
Kayo Shido
Painting - 102 x 102 x 0.2 cm Painting - 40.2 x 40.2 x 0.1 inch
$6,014
Paravent abstraction shade
M. Sakai
Painting - 60 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,501 $1,250
I will not cry anymore
Akio Harada
Painting - 40 x 40 x 5.1 cm Painting - 15.75 x 15.75 x 2 inch
$1,819
Nostalgie soluble 10T-VIII
Akané Kirimura
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$4,774
Mémoire dans l'eau 10T-X
Akané Kirimura
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$4,774
Nostalgie soluble TM-I-05
Akané Kirimura
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$4,774
Mémoire dans l'eau 10T-IX
Akané Kirimura
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$4,774
Happiness is inside of you
Miyu Ai
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.01 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,403
One Day I Saw a Dream
Miyuki Takanashi
Painting - 23.7 x 22 x 3 cm Painting - 9.3 x 8.7 x 1.2 inch
$568
Modern Borrowed Scenery Lawson 2
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 33 x 33 x 3 cm Painting - 13 x 13 x 1.2 inch
$682
Tokyo Olympic Poster III
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 33 x 33 x 3 cm Painting - 13 x 13 x 1.2 inch
$682
Vieille femme-R – Premiers cris de naissance dans l’après-midi
Toshihiko Ikeda
Print - 91 x 65 x 0.2 cm Print - 35.8 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,046
Vieil homme – Posture de parfaite défense.
Toshihiko Ikeda
Print - 82 x 64 x 0.1 cm Print - 32.3 x 25.2 x 0 inch
$2,046
Japanese artists
Do you have a weakness for Japanese art? Located on an isolated island, Japanese art remained uninfluenced by Western society for a long time. In traditional Japanese art, we often see woodblock prints (ukiyo-e), hanging scrolls (kakejiku), or illustrated handscrolls (emaki). Most often, these traditional artworks will also include calligraphy (shodo). These mediums are distinct characteristics of traditional Japanese arts. Famous traditional artists include Utamaro and Utagawa Toyokuni. More recently, Japanese modern and contemporary art has been explosive in today's art world. What was once an isolated entity, has now become a highly sought-after commodity. Artists like Takashi Murakami and Yayoi Kusama have dominated the art scene by creating wildly out-of-this-world works that contribute to Japan's thriving artistic state. Despite the initial unease towards Western influence, Japanese art has been anything sort of successful.
Since the success of Superflat, a contemporary art movement influenced by Japanese anime, manga and pop culture and founded by Takashi Murakami, Japanese artists have invaded the international art scene.
Japanese art is distinguished by its great diversity. Some artists, such as Yoshitomo Nara, with his drawings of children and dogs with large naive eyes, retain, with a focus on the theme of innocence, the sensitive and fragile aspect of their traditional art. Others add to their art a degree of provocation and eroticisicm. Yayoi Kusama and Yoko Ono, both provocative and sometimes erotic, began their careers as artists during the 1960s in New York working with the movements Happening and Fluxus, respectively.
Others still are interested in the history of their country, pop culture or the consumer society. Ryoko Watanabe, for example, is inspired by Japanese stereotypes such as the Geisha and incorporates such characters into modern and urban landscapes.