The artist's long - standing interest in
Japanese nihonga painting and the contemporary practices of manga and animation are highlighted in this important body of work.
He executes the paintings, like Shiraga, with the supports on the ground, but he uses techniques from
Japanese nihonga, traditional painting with attendant materials.
Yuka Kashihara uses oil paint applied in a thinly diffuse manner similar to that of
Japanese nihonga painting, and by applying it in numerous layers she is able to create a unique depth of color.
Not exact matches
(She also links the birth of the Mungnimhoe style to a traumatic period of Korean history, noting that the Ink Forest painters grew up under
Japanese occupation and that for them «ink painting was an opportunity through which to free the mark from what its members saw as the obligations imposed on it via the dominance of
nihonga, the body of paintings made according to traditional
Japanese artistic conventions.»)
Tadaaki Kuwayama graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1956, having studied
nihonga, a traditional form of
Japanese painting.
Yoshikawa employs traditional
Japanese brush painting methods known as
nihonga and sumi - e to create compositions reflecting nature and abstractions.
Raised in Matsumoto, Kusama trained at the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts in a traditional
Japanese painting style called
nihonga.