New York / Japan. Born 1929
Obsessive pattern painting, collage, sculpture, installation
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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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New York / China, Taiwan, Province of China, France. 1901 - 1966
Floral still life and figure painting, abstract nude drawing
New York, California / Japan. Born 1962
Installation sculpture, images of commercial merchandise, female dolls, watches
China, Taiwan, Province of China. Born 1932
Painting
New York / Italy. Born 1956
Conceptual art, mixed media non-objective painting
China, Germany, United Kingdom. 1900 - 1991
Modernist figure, landscape and genre paintings, drawings, teaching
New York / China. Born 1957
Performance and conceptual art, installation sculpture
Germany. Born 1932
Non-objective, photo painting
Singapore, China. 1917 - 1983
Abstract marine, landscape and figure painting and ink drawing
Germany. Born 1938
Portraits abstract figuration, neo-expressionist
California, Texas / Italy, France. 1915 - 1995
Abstract painting, collage-'Art Informal'
Italy. Born 1933
Life-size figure paintings, photoscreen images, conceptual
China, France. 1920 - 2014
Abstract landscape painting, ceramics, calligraphy and graphics
New York, Arizona. Born 1957
Modernist cartoon, text with drawings, satire, illustration
Japan. 1924 - 2008
Avant-garde painting
Viet Nam, France. 1906 - 1980
Figure, portrait, still life, genre painting
New York, Connecticut. Born 1953
Neo-conceptual abstract painting, printmaking, teaching
New York, New Mexico. Born 1941
Minimal non ob, installation
England. Born 1958
Computer generated images-portraits, genre, cartoon figures, pole dancers
England, United States. Born 1965
Conceptual life and death themed installations
New York, Connecticut. Born 1965
Pop art and and romantic portrait painting
China. Born 1962
Post-modern, laughing face motif painting, sculpture, installations
Philippines, France. 1910 - 1981
Cubist painting, illustration
China. Born 1958
Realist, surrealist portrait and figure painting
New York / China. 1935 - 2000
Paintings and sculpture-metal construction
China. Born 1965
Cynical realism painting
New York. Born 1949
Word play, non objective, views, sculpture
New York, Connecticut. Born 1937
Geometric, minimal abstract painting
Viet Nam, Asia. 1892 - 1984
Oriental genre, landscape and figure painting on silk
England. Born 1964
Conceptual human body sculpture-sexual and 'cerebral'
New York, California / China, France. 1906 - 1963
Modernist landscape, figure-genre painting, mural
Taiwan, Province of China. 1938 - 2023
Abstract sculpture, painting