Hokusai is my favorite Japanese artist. I think his paintings are always really good, but my favorite one is The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1832) even though it's the classic one you see everywhere. I also like his really colorful paintings, like this other one of the sea in Japan.
I have never really been into Anime. Japanese animations have never really done anything for me, but then again, most animations don't interest me much. The most recent manga I tried reading was Nana, just because it's so popular. I thought it was kind of silly. I do like some graphic novels, though, like Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. It's a two-part graphic novel about a girlgrowing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.
Do you have a favorite Japanese artist?
3 comments:
julie,
have you seen this hokusai tiger?
it always weirds me out because it looks so modern, and none of his other work looks like it at all!
--liza.
ps: i'm stellarbaby on livejournal... it's been awhile! hello! are you in japan right now, or about to go there?
my favorite japanese artist is yoshitaka amano.
i love his hybrid of old-detail pen strokes with modern themes. he helps create a world where man is still connected to the nature of the world, but then only uses modern machine knowledge for minimal things.
-ak
www.myspace.com/paranoidgoddess
ariss, my favorite artist is yoshitaka amano as well! i was hoping to see one of his galleries in japan, but i don't know when and where they are on display.
julie, in reference to manga, there really are a lot of distasteful ones out there. i've really enjoyed a few though, that are just as cultural as they are creative. my favorite would have to be mushishi, have you heard of it? it won several awards a couple years ago, including the kodansha manga award. the story follows a mysterious man who travels across japan to study mushi and treat humans. mushi normally means 'bug', but in this story, it really refers to a sort of insect-like magical spirit. i'm not sure what era it takes place in, but i'm guessing the edo era. the art is fantastic, and the theme and storyline is very deep. i highly recommend it, as well as the anime.
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