Japanese Portraits

 

Artist: Daisuke Ujuan.

His right painting feels like its going to vanish to me.For the left painting, i wonder why is the person in such position.

Artist:Yasumasa Morimura.

Artist:Toshio Bando

Artist:Minako Ota

Artist:Ikenaga Yasunari

Japanese artist Ikenaga Yasunari paints portraits of women in serene, often wistful poses, in which the patterns of their clothing and surrounding textiles as as important within the compositions as the stylized design work of Mucha or Klimt.Though his approach is modern, Yasunari works in tools and techniques from the traditional Nihonga style, painting on linen cloth with a Menso brush, using mineral pigments and soot ink (comparable to Lamp Black in European artistic tradition).

XHXIX

Xhxix is a tokyo-based artistpaintings depict mostly gaunt young men in surreal states of mental anguish or physical injury.They seem in some state of depression, trapped in their hurting bodies with their heads tumbling. The images are filled with raw emotion and fragmented nuances.I feels that every painting has its story behind it. His painting captures the look of loneliness and is haunting.All of his painting are either white or grey.

I like this self portrait because the color of the background and the rainbow color looks well together and makes the drawing looks sad and depressing.

This painting is on a boy shattering and the pieces of him. He looks like he is thinking something. This painting feels like there is a story behind.

The tomato is covering half of the face and it feel like blood dripping down his face. He looks like thinking of something and has a story in the painting.

This painting makes me guess why the window is on the eye and what the artist is trying to say. After a careful look on the painting, I found that there is a cross on the mouth. This makes me curious again and really wants to know the story behind.

To me, this drawing means that the smiling sticker is on the face of the boy but he is not smiling, rather, he is sad and depress. On a closer look, the right eye not normal.

This portrait show a boy standing and doing a "V"hand sign but he does not look happy.

This portrait has 3 merry go round horses hanging on top of the boy and he is covering his nose and mouth. The right eye is more obvious that it is not normal in this painting.Merry go round remind me of childhood. Maybe he has a bad memory of this childhood.

This portrait show him wearing a fox mask.Fox remind me of cunning、  slyness. 

This painting show a boy biting on to a piece of bread and his face is full of mold.