japanese artist

Lady Aiko. Street Art that Combines East and West

On: October 8, 2021

Tagged: east and west, graffiti, japanese, japanese artist, Street art

Lady Aiko (also AIKO, born Aiko Nakagawa in 1975) is a Japanese street artist based in Brooklyn, New York.. In a largely male-dominated medium, Aiko is an influential figure in contemporary street art. She is known for her ability to combine western art movements and eastern technical, artistic skills, as well as for her large-scale works installed in cities including Rome, Italy, Shanghai, China and Brooklyn, New York Read More →

Harue Koga delightful illustrations and paintings ♥︎

On: October 2, 2021

Tagged: Design, japan, japanese, japanese artist, japanese culture, japanese design, Japanese designer

. He dropped out of junior high school to pursue a career as a painter, and in 1912, he relocated to Tokyo. He studied at the Taiheiyoga-institute kai’s and then the Japan Watercolor Painting Society’s institute. Koga became a priest in 1915 and studied Buddhism at Taisho University. Read More →

6 Works That Explain Yayoi Kusama’s Rise to Art World Stardom

On: June 8, 2021

Tagged: artist, japanese, japanese artist, japanese design, Japanese designer, Yayoi Kusama

In 1965, Kusama erected the first of her now-famous immersive environments. Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli’s Field (Floor Show) fused her interests in repetition, sexual exploration, psychology, and perception by filling a roughly 25-square-meter mirrored room with a thick carpet of soft, twisting phalluses camouflaged in the artist’s signature polka dots.Read More →

The Ero Guro Drawings of Keizo Miyanishi

On: June 6, 2021

Tagged: Design, illustrations, japanese artist

To some critics, Miyanishi’s art is described as “delicately grotesque,” with eccentric and unusual characters. In the 70s, after the ero-boom died down, he focused on his career as an illustrator. His band, Onna, topped the indie chart in Japan in 1983. His recent work carries clear signs of his commitment to modern Russian literature’s themes of existentialist suffering and cultural decay.Read More →