Speech Balloon Man
During the process of learning Japanese art post-Meiji Era, Nakamura started to rethink the concept of arts, paintings and the translation concept of Japanese art. After being influenced by “Me no sinden” written by Noriaki Kitazawa, Art Shuppansya (1989), these concepts are shown in his artwork series “Speech Balloon man”, which he draws inspiration from “Dance” (1910) by Henri Matisse and ‘The birth of Venus” (1480’s) by Sandro Botticelli. Ultimately, combining all artworks.
This is the visualization of Kengo Nakamura, a 21st century Japanese artist seeking the concept of the arts from Western culture while retaining the Japanese art spirit. He uses the arts created by the great Western artists to resemble a number of speech balloons then intentionally using the visual to combine western arts and Japanese arts. These works show his double bind of Nakamura’s fate that lives between Western and Japanese beauty.
During the process of learning Japanese art post-Meiji Era, Nakamura started to rethink the concept of arts, paintings and the translation concept of Japanese art. After being influenced by “Me no sinden” written by Noriaki Kitazawa, Art Shuppansya (1989), these concepts are shown in his artwork series “Speech Balloon man”, which he draws inspiration from “Dance” (1910) by Henri Matisse and ‘The birth of Venus” (1480’s) by Sandro Botticelli. Ultimately, combining all artworks.
This is the visualization of Kengo Nakamura, a 21st century Japanese artist seeking the concept of the arts from Western culture while retaining the Japanese art spirit. He uses the arts created by the great Western artists to resemble a number of speech balloons then intentionally using the visual to combine western arts and Japanese arts. These works show his double bind of Nakamura’s fate that lives between Western and Japanese beauty.