3D + 2D: paintings-sculptures by Shintaro Ohata about a happy childhood

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Looking at the wonderful works of the Japanese author Shintaro Ohata, it is difficult to determine what is in front of us - sculpture or painting. And if you take a closer look, it turns out that both. Sculpture paintings are something like a miniature diorama or panorama, where a flat scenic background and three-dimensional objects in the foreground together form one whole.

36-year-old Japanese Shintaro Ohata (Shintaro Ohata) creates a cross between painting and sculpture: both this and that. Unlike dioramas and panoramas mainly of military themes, Shintaro Ohata's sculptures are purely peaceful works, and they tell not about adult games in war, but about a bright childhood.

By the way, childhood is no less important topic than battle scenes. Communicating with animals, walking around the city, waiting for rain, riding a carousel are events worthy of being captured in sculpture paintings.

In the childhood world created by the artist Shintaro Ohata, the characters are calm and thoughtful. They fit perfectly into the landscape, illuminated by the gentle rays of the setting sun or the soft lights of the evening city. That is why the main impression of the wonderful sculpture paintings is a feeling of serenity.