Japanese Artist
Japanese modern artist konoike tomoko plays with traditional and rural motifs to create surrealist sculptures and paintings but in a recognizably japanese style.
Japanese artist. Superflat art is characterized by bold outlines flat colors and a lack of perspective and three dimensional depth. Murakami coined the term superflat in 2001 when he curated a touring exhibition of the same name. Painting has been the preferred form of artistic expression in japan and japanese artists have developed various styles along the years including the sumi e ink wash painting and ukiyo e a genre of woodblock prints and paintings styles which are well known across the world. Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media including ancient pottery sculpture ink painting and calligraphy on silk and paper ukiyo e paintings and woodblock prints ceramics origami and more recently manga which is modern japanese cartoons and comics along with a myriad of other types.
In japanese art flat compositions are found throughout history from ukiyo e woodblock prints of the edo period to contemporary manga and anime. For this piece donning animal skins and braided grass an aluminium frame with shards of mirror creates the ethereal impression of a japanese wolf. Traditionally successful japanese artists have looked abroad as their careers developed using the west as an inspiration. This list is intended to encompass japanese who are primarily fine artists.