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Superflat
Superflat is a postmodern art movement, founded by the artist Takashi Murakami, which is influenced by manga and anime. However, superflat doesn't have an explicit definition because Takashi Murakami does not want to limit the movement, but rather leave room for it to grow and evolve over time. Superflat is also the name of a 2000 art exhibition, curated by Murakami, that toured West Hollywood, Minneapolis and Seattle. Description "Superflat" is used by Murakami to refer to various flattened forms in Japanese graphic art, animation, pop culture and fine arts, as well as the "shallow emptiness of Japanese consumer culture." Superflat has been embraced by American artists, who have created a hybrid called " SoFlo Superflat". Murakami defines ''Superflat'' in broad terms, so the subject matter is very diverse. Some works explore the consumerism and sexual fetishism that is prevalent in post-war Japanese culture. This often includes lolicon art, which is parodied by works such as tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SoFlo Superflat
SoFlo Superflat describes an art genre started in Miami in the 1990s. It is an urban pop art movement in South Florida that combines super bright colors and ultra flat images. The subject matters are very diverse. It is an outcrop of the Japanese Superflat movement, founded by the artist Takashi Murakami. Description These artists emphasize outlines and flat areas of color. What is important is the feeling of flatness. Many of the artists involved in SoFlo Superflat art believe that the culture in SoFlo is not three-dimensional; therefore, it can be better interpreted in very flat brightly colored two-dimensional images. SoFlo Superflat was born out of the compression of genres which is shown through the pop-inflected work of younger artists. The artists in this genre have very specific styles that can be best described as a consistent pictorial language. Repetition of images and pattern is used create a signature look. For example, Britto's "squiggle lines" and geometric patter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiho Aoshima
is a Japanese pop artist and member of Takashi Murakami's Kaikai Kiki Collective. Aoshima graduated from the Department of Economics, Hosei University, Tokyo. She held a residency at Art Pace, San Antonio, United States in 2006. Personal life Aoshima was unhappy while studying economics at Hosei University. In an interview with Saatchi Art Aoshima admitted that, "I was bored to death, even when I was hanging out with my friends. I was eager to create something but didn’t know what to create, every day time passed so slowly and I felt like I was going to die." She taught herself how to use Adobe Illustrator and began to fall in love with the medium. After participating in her first show, Murakami's ''Tokyo Girls Bravo, ''she began to work in Murakami’s factory. Aoshima’s work often involves surreal scenes and dreamscapes, often including ghosts, demons, nature and shōjo. Her work also features contrasting themes such as nature and civilization, creation and destruction a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takashi Murakami
is a Japanese contemporary artist. He works in fine arts media (such as painting and sculpture) as well as commercial (such as fashion, merchandise, and animation) and is known for blurring the line between high and low arts as well as co aesthetic characteristics of the Japanese artistic tradition and the nature of postwar Japanese culture and society, and is also used for Murakami's artistic style and other Japanese artists he has influenced. Murakami is the founder and President of Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., through which he manages several younger artists. He was the founder and organizer of the biannual art fair Geisai. Life and career Academic background and early career Murakami was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. From early on, he was a fan of anime and manga (Japanese cartoons and comics respectively), and hoped to work in the animation industry. He attended Tokyo University of the Arts to acquire the drafting skills necessary to become an animator, but event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitoshi Tomizawa
is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for his sci-fi series ''Alien Nine.'' Career Tomizawa worked as an assistant to ''Baki the Grappler'' author Keisuke Itagaki, before publishing his first work as a professional manga artist with the series ''Uchū Jūbe'' in the magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion, ''Shōnen Champion''. Style and themes His manga tend to be short, with sci-fi stories involving children and insects. His art was fairly standard shōnen manga style for his first series, but starting with ''Alien 9'' it became very distinctive, but with very large eyes and unnatural proportions, and has since been featured in exhibitions including Takashi Murakami's superflat. by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, at Artnet Works * Treasure Hunter (manga), ''Treasure Hunt ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Postmodern Art
Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or some aspects that emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as intermedia, installation art, conceptual art and multimedia, particularly involving video are described as postmodern. There are several characteristics which lend art to being postmodern; these include bricolage, the use of text prominently as the central artistic element, collage, simplification, appropriation, performance art, the recycling of past styles and themes in a modern-day context, as well as the break-up of the barrier between fine and high arts and low art and popular culture. Use of the term The predominant term for art produced since the 1950s is "contemporary art". Not all art labeled as contemporary art is postmodern, and the broader term encompasses both artists who continue to work in modernist and late modernist traditions, as well as artists who reject postmodernism for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itō Jakuchū
was a Japanese painter of the mid-Edo period when Japan had closed its doors to the outside world. Many of his paintings concern traditionally Japanese subjects, particularly chickens and other birds. Many of his otherwise traditional works display a great degree of experimentation with perspective, and with other very modern stylistic elements. Compared to Soga Shōhaku and other exemplars of the mid-Edo period eccentric painters, Jakuchū is said to have been very calm, restrained, and professional. He held strong ties to Zen Buddhist ideals, and was considered a lay brother (''koji''); but he was also keenly aware of his role within a Kyoto society that was becoming increasingly commercial. Biography Itō Jakuchū was the eldest son of Itō Genzaemon, a Kyoto grocer whose shop, called Masuya, lay in the center of downtown, in the Nishiki food district. Jakuchū ran the shop from the time of his father's death in 1739 until 1755, when he turned it over to one of his brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanō Sansetsu
was a Japanese painter also known as Kanō Heishiro. He was born in Hizen Province, Kyūshū, and died in Kyoto. Biography Sansetsu was apprenticed to Kanō Sanraku, married his daughter, and was adopted by him after the death of Sanraku's eldest son. Later, he became the leader of the Kanō school. He was the father of Kanō Einō. Works *''Dragon in the clouds'', hanging scroll, ink on paper. *''Huang Chuping'', hanging scroll, ink on paper. *''Laozi'', one of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink on paper. *''Mount Fuji'', hanging scroll, ink and gold on paper. *''The old plum'' ca. 1645, four sliding door panels (fusuma), ink, color, gold leaf on paper. *''Seabirds on a winter coast'', screen, color, India ink, and gold on paper. collection hosotsugi, Kyoto. *''The ten snow incidents'', one of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and light color on paper. *''Transcendent'', hanging scroll, ink on paper. *''Two chickens on thatched roof'', hanging scroll, ink and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milk Closet
Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals (including breastfed human infants) before they are able to digest solid food. Immune factors and immune-modulating components in milk contribute to milk immunity. Early-lactation milk, which is called colostrum, contains antibodies that strengthen the immune system, and thus reduces the risk of many diseases. Milk contains many nutrients, including protein and lactose. As an agricultural product, dairy milk is collected from farm animals. In 2011, dairy farms produced around of milk from 260 million dairy cows. India is the world's largest producer of milk and the leading exporter of skimmed milk powder, but it exports few other milk products. Because there is an ever-increasing demand for dairy products within India, it could eventually become a net importer of dairy products. New Zealand, Germany and the Netherlands are the largest exporters of m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alien Nine
is a Japanese manga series by Hitoshi Tomizawa, which was later adapted into an original video animation (OVA) series by J.C.Staff. The manga was serialized in Akita Shoten's ''Young Champion'' magazine, spanning 3 volumes. In 2003, Tomizawa released a 1-volume sequel to the series called ''Alien 9 Emulators''. In 2015, Tomizawa also released a sequel doujinshi to ''Alien 9'' and ''Alien 9 Emulators'' called ''Alien 9 Next''. Both the manga and anime are noted for their moe art style contrasting the realistic art style seen in most ''seinen'' series at the time and heavy violence despite the young main characters, ''Pokémon''-like monster designs, and initial appearances of a slice-of-life-esque series. The English adaptation of the series was first licensed by Central Park Media, and has played on Comcast's Anime Selects. Central Park Media released the title under their "US Manga Corps" line, on a single DVD, and later re-released the DVD in a box set with all three man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōji Morimoto
is a Japanese anime director. Some of his works include being an animator in the '' Akira'' film; shorts in '' Robot Carnival'', '' Short Peace'', and ''The Animatrix''; and key animation in anime such as ''Kiki's Delivery Service'', ''City Hunter'', and ''Fist of the North Star''. He is the co-founder of Studio 4°C. He has hosted the independent creative team 'phy' since 2009. Biography Born in Wakayama, Japan, he graduated from the Osaka Designers' college in 1979 and a couple of years later joined the studio Annapuru as an animator for the TV series '' Tomorrow's Joe''. While working there, he saw some animation by Takashi Nakamura in ''Gold Lightan'', an otherwise standard mecha TV series by a rival studio. He was impressed, and it inspired him to quit his job and become a freelance animator. Morimoto often collaborated with Nakamura, most notably in Katsuhiro Otomo’s "The Order to Stop Construction" segment of the anthology film '' Neo-Tokyo''. This opened many doors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mangaka
A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist before entering the industry as a primary creator. More rarely a manga artist breaks into the industry directly, without previously being an assistant. For example, Naoko Takeuchi, author of '' Sailor Moon'', won a Kodansha Manga Award contest and manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka was first published while studying an unrelated degree, without working as an assistant. A manga artist will rise to prominence through recognition of their ability when they spark the interest of institutions, individuals or a demographic of manga consumers. For example, there are contests which prospective manga artist may enter, sponsored by manga editors and publishers. This can also be accomplished through producing a one-shot. While sometimes a stand-alone manga, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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