Yoshimoto Nara

[sweetphotato14]

Nara's work is gentle. it's not heavy. it's so simple. I like nara's novel and picture. it's so preety. but it has the meaning about someting. somewhen I want to meet nara. really I wonder nara's character. why always does he draw picture ? who is him ? he he. I expect, his next working.

[9908jping]

奈良美智(narayoshitomo)good !

[ZhouFantastic]

I love Yoshitomo Nara's work!

[TheMABE19]

Yoshitomo I mean :)

[TheMABE19]

Yoshimoto Nara is such a great artist, his art gives me so much inspiration. Thank you for uploading this video :)

[CUMBICA1970]

How in the world you mistook Yoshitomo for Yoshimoto...? Beam them up Scotty-san!

[MrFishus]

"mango and anime"...

[thebowiesfrommars]

I'd love to see a kid with lines that smooth and clean and a sense of colour and shading that good. Just because something looks simple doesnt mean just any lazy fuck can do it you ignorant twats.

[77maiko]

He is asperger syndrome and PDD? those girls look like autisum children...

[touchmyabs]

holy shit, leonard gave him the ears!

[herohammer]

payment in Vulkan ears is pretty nice

[JoshP1134]

Please don't shoot that guitarist!

[Ramone48]

i wish i could find out the music used in this!

it sounds so chill!

[silversaltfilms]

makes sense ...

[pipppin3]

Subject interesting, BUT I HATE ROSS the fat cat Beeb luvvie .

[blaketake]

its yoshitomo, not yoshimoto btw

[friendsofthefruitsof]

it is toothpaste BTW

[avon1965]

ここで、奈良美智さんの作品を見る事が出来、大感謝

しています～

[FatCalicoCat]

Nara's the shit. I pity those who don't get his

work...those who say "my kid could do that". There's a lot of thought in his works plus style

and his paintings are very compelling.

[friendsofthefruitsof]

wow he sqeezes these things out just like topothpaste. Looks good but no meaning. Hello Kitty + Emily not too intellectually stimulating here folks.

[falrapax]

someone could use a dose of superflat philosophy

[friendsofthefruitsof]

yes and when you read it and think it through you will see just how much shit it contains. Ohhh the Japanese cant make anything that matters because we don't have any ideas? are you kidding? Murakami is a fraud. See early people he gravitated towards: RYOICHI Majima, and Makoto Aida, 2 artists with many ideas that go places, not just tickle your cool bones, but something that stimulates your thoughts a bit more. So Murakami kicks them to the side so they dont expose them for the frauds they are.

[falrapax]

well I'm not sure where exactly you read that about superflat. What I've read from Takahashi Murakami and other superflat artists/aupporters does indeed suggest a glorification of the superficial, but the idea is to create art acceptable as high art still done in a style appealing to the masses: just as Japanese art such as ukiyo-e did before western influence. It is meant to be a criticism/celebration of post-WWII Japanese 'low' art, re-molded into a uniquely Japanese-informed 'high' art.

[friendsofthefruitsof]

low art ironic hahahahahahahahha, hey i have a few LDP pork barrel projects to sell you.

[friendsofthefruitsof]

someone ought to check the footnotes and question that murakostabi pretends he is the Voice of Japan and 90's Japanese art. Artists here have moved on and these 2 fellas are dasai old hat and so last decade. Japan actually has ideas and some quality art.

[falrapax]

ukiyo-e is an example of that 'low art': mass-produced art created specifically for consumption and profit. noone said superflat and kaikai kiki were the be-all and end-all of contemporary japanese art (at least I didn't). but it is also not a meaningless or irrelevant facet of japanese art, neither of the last decade nor this one. considering the enormous cultural prevalence of anime and the like in post-WWII Japan, an artistic movement like Superflat was practically inevitable.

[friendsofthefruitsof]

the Ukioe Artists were actually artists and not opportunists. Murakostabi (Murakami+Mark Kostabi) keepson claiming he speaks for The Japanese. Besides this moment came 40+ years before, See Keiichi Tanaami, Tandanori Yokoo and Sanrio. Come on give it a break and see what is really happening here. Yoshotomo Toothpaste and Murakostabi are pretty much irrelevant here, they just sell to the Gaijin as "exotica."

[falrapax]

First of all, your attempt at propagandizing by making cute little name combos (See: Dumbocrats, Repukelicans) make what you say less credible. I hope you understand that. Second of all, you have twice now confused the 'message' of Superflat with Japanese avant garde and/or popular art in general, which suggests ignorance. You clearly don't know ukiyo-e history. Have a dash of Wikipedia, unless that's not credible enough for you (and that would be a lame excuse).

[falrapax]

First of all, your attempt at propagandizing by making cute little name combos (See: Dumbocrats, Repukelicans) make what you say less credible. I hope you understand that. Second of all, you have twice now confused the 'message' of Superflat with Japanese avant garde and/or popular art in general, which suggests ignorance. You clearly don't know ukiyo-e history. Have a dash of Wikipedia, unless that's not credible enough for you (and that would be a lame excuse).

[jimbojambojombo]

he's amazing!

[jeffreycollins]

Good for him, he actually makes his own art.

[RedMoonAi]

dont like dont watch