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Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 12 W x 29.9 H x 2.2 D in
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As a Japanese artist living in the UK, I feel a constant longing, passion and love for all things Japanese. I think that Western art has always based itself on a meta-narrative, and always tried to reinvent itself to move forward from the current meta-narrative, and as a result modern art as it has emerged in the West has become a highly theoretical practice. In comparison, traditional Japanese art has been created in a unique environment (even though it takes significant influence from China). Japan lived through 700 years of the rule of the sword, which included 200 or more years of complete closure to the outside world, during which it prospered. Perhaps this unique history explains why Japanese art has established its style, focusing on surface beauty as if picking up the essence of historical drama, landscapes and natural beauty as its motifs, by avoiding the speculative aspects of thought and philosophy. These things are indescribably beautiful, and also frail. Their beauty is closely linked to the Western philosophy and historical-artistic concept of "memento mori" (remember your mortality). This work "Haiku Poet" represents my interpretation of the Japanese wabi-sabi aesthetic lifestyle. As simplifying its composition as possible by following the Japanese traditional painting style, I attempted to create a lyric visual narrative through which I explored my own Japanese identity. The work was produced with my original line hatching method by using a variety of visual sources to embody the above concept.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:12 W x 29.9 H x 2.2 D in
Frame:Black
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Hideyuki Sobue (b. 1965) lives and works in the Lake District, UK, yet grew up as an orphan in Aichi, Japan. Working with drawing and painting, two historic media that have served as a fundamental means of communication since prehistoric times, he explores the unbroken line in the relationship between art and humanity. Sobue uses an entirely original brush hatching technique employing Japanese sumi ink and acrylic. Created through a fusion of influences - the concept of Disegno in the Florentine school of the Renaissance, oriental artistic heritage and neurological studies - Sobue’s medium attempts to create a platform bridging east and west, and explore the interdisciplinary approach related to the human act of seeing. Sobue has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and Japan. Notable exhibitions include “A Letter to the Earth from Beatrix” commissioned by the National Trust and supported by Arts Council England
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