Hello there my peeps!
Today’s work is by the artist Shintaro Ohata. Here is a quick
bio statement from his website:
“Shintaro Ohata is an artist who depicts
little things in everyday life like scenes of a movie and captures all sorts of
light in his work with a unique touch: convenience stores at night, city roads
on rainy day and fast-food shops at dawn etc. His paintings show us ordinary
sceneries as dramas. He is also known for his characteristic style; placing
sculptures in front of paintings, and shows them as one work, a combination of
2-D and 3-D world. He says that it all started from when he wondered “I could
bring the atmosphere or dynamism of my paintings with a more different way if I
place sculptures in front of paintings”. Many viewers tend to assume that there
is a light source set into his work itself because of the strong expression of
lights in his sculpture. His further steps have been noticed as he has been
featured by lots of media from overseas, including a cultural magazine from the
USA that featured him on their front cover and a long interview.”
The piece that I picked
today is called “Starry Night” and I just love this for several reasons. First
off, not everything in the picture is a painting even though it is made out to
look that way. The use of the sculptures to work as the main subjects in the
painting itself is genius. I find that it also creates more of a connection
with different kinds of viewer because part of the painting is a 3-D object.
The final reason that I
love this piece is because of how he took any ordinary back ground, something
we may see every day and turned it into something beautiful. The beauty of the
brush strokes and the application of the paint makes me want to weep but, not
from sadness but from the beauty of it.
What do you guys think?
As ever, peace out my peeps! -DG
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