Thousand Regards

Really, Japanese artists know how to please my eyes. Now it's Tomokazu Matsuyama's turn. He's known for having style in blending Eastern and Western cultural. Nicknamed as Matsu, his paintings are, I don't know, very Japanese on the side that I can tell, but having these psychedelic triangles and modern-curvy shapes at the same time. The colours are also bright. Ones even have these spacey identities, like white dots as stars, or nebulae-like colours. As for the sculpture, well, I find it interesting. There was this great silver horse, and surprisingly, it had Lego-like people on its back, riding. Why this post was titled "Thousand Regards" is that it's the name for his solo exhibition at the Katzen Arts Center of the American University Museum. You might want to check his works. I like Matsu! Here are some of his works (ones that I love!)

Painted Animals

When I read his biography, I was like, well, I could be him within 10 years or more. He studied marine biology as a career (I'm talking about knowledge of fish, big range of fish, cause I will have that subject within next year or next semester) and it helped him through his career as an artist. Then he took fine art as his graduate school. So he has Master of Fine Art as a degree and he knows the ocean that well. Sounds like my favourite path to live my life. Hopefully. Here's George Boorujy's ink paintings on animals.

Posters

Some of my favourite artworks of film posters. Not mine, I found it elsewhere on the internet. Remade film posters have been a favourite. I dislike digital film posters and the fact that painted film posters on cinemas almost extinct, makes me look forward for artists to remake film posters. It's nice to represent something that created by the work of the hands, not fingers dancing on keyboards and clicking mouses. Though some of these artworks made digitally, I still love how different they are from its original ones.

Midnight in Paris

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 2)

Palacio De Cristal

I love his artworks ever since I saw one of his Oil Room installations (1985). He nicely collaborated architecture and photography which makes perceptions of art. At first I thought he was Italian or French referring to his projects' titles. But then I (finally) read an article about him and it is said that he's Norwegian. I love how he managed to be an artist when the country he came from, Norway, is so far yet so cold (even my dad got fat drinking milk everyday to keep him warm since he doesn't drink). Palacio De Cristal was one of his special projects. It was a museum that he redesigned in Madrid. Museo Reina Sofia, to be exact. And again, he left trademarks of him in his projects, though I haven't figured it out, I just knew when I see one that it's Per Barclay's.

Melting Rainbows

Taisuke Koyama is a Japanese photographer with sights of creating natural things into delicious artworks. He captured organic phenomenons. Started as a photographer in 2003, he has released some series of his artworks and the famous one was "Entopix" (2006). His latest project was "Sandwich Textures" on August 2011. But well, everyone's have their own favourites, so here's my favourite series: "Melting Rainbows." And please noted that he's still young (and pretty much a good looking japanese-kind-of guy).

Illuminance

I love this woman's works. Though Illuminance took 15 years to be done, I'd certainly wait for great works like this. She collaborated art and photography brilliantly. Like Yumi Goto (TIME) said in Lightbox, she creates an imaginary space. And, ugh, I have nothing much to say about her, but her eyes must be really amazing. One last thing, Rinko Kawauchi, you need to teach me how to take pictures this amazing. I'm longing to see her next project on photography of natural disaster.