Video: Shamanic paintings of the Japanese painter Sohei Takasaki (Shohei Takasaki)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It's amazing what jokes Providence sometimes plays with us! At a time when the whole of Europe was captured by a passion for everything oriental, namely, Japanese, artists who live and work in the Land of the Rising Sun imitate African shamans. This is a young Tokyo artist named Shohei Takasaki. It is he who covers the canvases with writings and silhouettes of outlandish gods.
Takasaki calls himself an art director, an artist, a person of art. Moreover, it is a very entertaining art, since it is difficult to say how abstract his paintings are. I would choose another term: Sohei Takasaki is engaged in mystical painting.
Probably, there should have been information that since childhood Takasaki was fond of studying African tribes, traveled to the Black Continent, or at least dreamed of them … However, nothing like that happened. And where did the Japanese youth get the shamanistic motives in painting - it is as much a mystery as the mood behind his paintings. Aggression, humor, sadness, disappointment, pain, fear … Or maybe childhood grievances and experiences that have just now found a way out on the canvas?
By the way, Sohei Takasaki's personal page can be found on the website Сolorfarm.
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