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Yumiko Kayukawa
Yumiko Kayukawa (born 1970) is a Japanese visual artist, currently based in Seattle, known for fantastical paintings that utilize flat color and decorative graphic elements in works that combine female figures with animals, mythical beings and natural elements. Early life and education Yumiko Kayukawa was born in the town of Naie on the island of Hokkaido, Japan. Kayukawa attended Hokkaido College of Art & Design, Bisen Art School in Sapporo. She moved to Seattle, Washington in 2005. Work Kayukawa's work combines traditional Japanese themes with motifs from American fashion and music culture. Shinto animism combines with Rock and Roll inspirations. Selected exhibitions Kayukawa's solo exhibitions include ''Year Of The Fire Horse'' at Foley Gallery, New York, NY in 2014, “HAKURYUU – White Dragon” at LeBasse projects, Culver City, CA in 2012, References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Kayukawa, Yumiko Living people 1970 births 20th-century Japanese painters 20th-centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Art
Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic combination of Medium (arts), materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue the challenging of boundaries that was already well underway in the 20th century. Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organising principle, ideology, or "-ism". Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality. In vernacular English, ''modern'' and ''contemporary'' are synonyms, resulting in some conflation and confusion of the terms ''modern art'' and ''contemporary art'' by non-specialists. Scope Some define contemporary art as art produced within "our lifetime," recognising tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
