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Born 1959 Hirosaki, Japan. Known for: Mod child figurative, animal.
Yoshimoto (some spell it Yashitomo) Nara was born in 1959 in Hirosaki, Japan and has exhibited extensively in the United States as well as Japan and European countries. Using a style combining the... Read full biography
Yoshimoto (some spell it Yashitomo) Nara was born in 1959 in Hirosaki, Japan and has exhibited extensively in the United States as well as Japan and European countries. Using a style combining the effect of Japanese prints and Pop Art cartoons, he paints solitary, doll-like children to comment upon... Read full biography
Yoshimoto (some spell it Yashitomo) Nara was born in 1959 in Hirosaki, Japan and has exhibited extensively in the United States as well as Japan and European countries. Using a style combining the effect of Japanese prints and Pop Art cartoons, he paints solitary, doll-like children to comment upon the decline of society, East and West. To Nara, children symbolize a world marked by confusion and anxiety about an unknown future. Since 1988, he has divided his time between Japan and Germany,... Read full biography
Yoshimoto (some spell it Yashitomo) Nara was born in 1959 in Hirosaki, Japan and has exhibited extensively in the United States as well as Japan and European countries. Using a style combining the effect of Japanese prints and Pop Art cartoons, he paints solitary, doll-like children to comment upon the decline of society, East and West. To Nara, children symbolize a world marked by confusion and anxiety about an unknown future. Since 1988, he has divided his time between Japan and Germany, where he studied art. He sees himself as a voluntary exile. Because art schools and museums were conservative in Japan, Nara, also a sculptor working in a similarly simplistic style, studied contemporary art on his own there as a young man, eventually... Read full biography
Yoshimoto (some spell it Yashitomo) Nara was born in 1959 in Hirosaki, Japan and has exhibited extensively in the United States as well as Japan and European countries. Using a style combining the effect of Japanese prints and Pop Art cartoons, he paints solitary, doll-like children to comment upon the decline of society, East and West. To Nara, children symbolize a world marked by confusion and anxiety about an unknown future. Since 1988, he has divided his time between Japan and Germany, where he studied art. He sees himself as a voluntary exile. Because art schools and museums were conservative in Japan, Nara, also a sculptor working in a similarly simplistic style, studied contemporary art on his own there as a young man, eventually seeking exhibitions abroad. He describes his earliest years as a "latch key child," coming home... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Assemblage
- •Bronze
- •Clay, Earthenware Vessels
- •Colored Pencil
- •Crayon, Crayola Drawing
- •Fiberglass
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Magic Marker, Sharpie, Felt-Tip Pen
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Plastics
- •Plexiglas
- •Resin
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Art Style
- •Cartoon Drawing, Cartoon Figures
- •Pop Art, Popular Culture
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Children, Child Figure, Genre, Portrait
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Asia, Orient
- •Japan
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Asian
- •Japanese