Video: The synthesis of America and Japan in the works of the artist HR-FM
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Western culture (especially pop culture) has greatly influenced modern Japanese culture. But nowadays there is also a reverse process, when more and more Japanese appear in the American and European cultural space. For example, in the work of an artist hiding under a pseudonym, HR-FM can be observed synthesis of western and eastern ideas about painting.
Japanese artist HR-FM was born and raised in Yokohama, graduated from the School of Arts here, and lives here at the moment. But this does not at all prevent him from being considered not so much a Japanese author as an American author. After all, he mainly works for the North American market.
He creates illustrations for American magazines, draws comics on American themes, and participates in the creation of American computer games. So the work of HR-FM comes to his native Japan precisely from America and as an American product.
But the work of HR-FM, despite its American theme, is thoroughly imbued with Japanese style. That is, there are no Japanese landscapes, Japanese heroes and nothing Japanese as such. But one has only to throw at least a cursory glance at these illustrations to understand that they were created by a Japanese.
Animated series "Transformers", "Godzilla", "Call", Takeshi Murakami, HR-FM. Japanese culture is gradually making its way to the West, becoming an integral part of Western culture and is no longer perceived as something that has foreign roots.
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