Asian Art Influence
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- jobhall
Any suggestions for modern asian motion designers/graphics designers/etc whose works was inspired by older, more popular asian artists.
It's for a paper I have to write which compares asian art and the influence newer artists have had from previous generations. Everyone else is doing painters or sculptors and I wanted to do something more digital.
Thanks!
- paraselene0
it's neither digital nor motion graphics, but i recently saw an exhibit by the japanese photographer araki, whose work recalls a lot of earlier japanese art forms, namely ukiyo-e and shunga. really fascinating stuff.
- vespa0
ooh is that show still on para? we were going to have a work afternoon out to go see something and that was suggested. do you think it would be a bit too confrontational for the fainthearted? (not me obviously but we have one or two sensitive souls here)
- paraselene0
it's on until january, and i'm definitely planning on going again. as for the content, i'd say probably not suitable for a work outing. lots of genitalia, bondage, pseudo-mutilation scenes, etc., but you should definitely go.
have you thought about the jeff wall exhibit at the tate? that might be a little less heart-attack-inducing...
- jobhall0
Hokusai's work is very nice. Thank you, this will help a lot.
- paraselene0
good luck, jobhall. if you do decide to go with araki, bear in mind that there's a documentary film about him (that he actually helped to create - did the soundtrack, etc.) which might be really useful for more information. i saw it as part of this exhibit that we're talking about, which is on at the barbican:
http://www.barbican.org.uk/galle…
you might be able to find out more about it on their site.
enjoy!
- vespa0
cheers for that doll, i thought as much.
Hey the Jeff Wall exhibition looks right up my street! there's something film-still like about the shots... i love photography with a strong narrative.
- paraselene0
yeah, that's his whole schtick. i read an article about him that said that one of his photographs took him seven years to make and was a composite of over 100 different stills. (it wasn't all that great a shot, but hey, you can't but admire those kinds of ocd levels in another human being.)
- jobhall0
Any more ideas? I'd especially like to find some graffiti artists to