In fact, unlike Murakami, Aida and Nara, who cite manga and
nihonga painting as references in their work, Gokita tells me it was a generation of New York Neo-Expressionists, then centered around Mary Boone Gallery, who had made the biggest impression on him during his student days at art college.
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.
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.»)
Born in Matsumoto, Japan, in 1929, the artist studied the traditional
painting technique
nihonga at the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts in 1948.
Hiroshi Senju's sublime, large - scale
paintings of waterfalls and cliffs are renowned for combining the techniques of abstract expressionism with Japan's centuries - old
nihonga style of
painting.
He executes the
paintings, like Shiraga, with the supports on the ground, but he uses techniques from Japanese
nihonga, traditional
painting with attendant materials.
The particular form of
nihonga practiced by Motonaga is known as tarashikomi, a type of
painting that drops or pours succeeding layers of
paint, without mixing them, over preceding layers before they dry.
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.