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Arai Makoto is a painter from Japan. He seeks to express the vastness and boundlessness of the eternal and unchanging life force. And from the culture of his native Japan, he is strongly inspired by the Azuchi-Momoyama culture around 1600, the eccentric painters of the Edo period. Momoyama culture a...
Arai Makoto is a painter from Japan. He seeks to express the vastness and boundlessness of the eternal and unchanging life force. And from the culture of his native Japan, he is strongly inspired by the Azuchi-Momoyama culture around 1600, the eccentric painters of the Edo period. Momoyama culture around 1600, the eccentric painters of the Edo period such as Katsushika Hokusai and Soga Shohaku, and the Jomon culture that began 15, 000 years ago. He sees it as the beauty of a powerful, drastic, wild and broken tone, which is different from "wabi-sabi," As an approach to this, he believes it is most important to leave traces of action such as drawing, scratching, heaping, and so on. As an approach to this, he believes it is most important to leave traces of action such as drawing, scratching, heaping, and scraping using various tools, without assuming a finished form. He seeks to express the vastness and boundlessness of eternal and unchanging life force. Influenced by Van Gogh, Picasso, Jackson Pollock, de Kooning, Kazuo Shiraga, and others, Arai is strongly influenced by the Azuchi-Momoyama culture of his native Japan, which dates back to around 1600, the eccentric Edo period painters Hokusai Katsushika and Soga Shohaku, and the Jomon culture that began 15,000 years ago. He sees this as the beauty of a powerful, drastic, wild, and broken tone, and he is carrying on another energetic and wild lineage of Japanese culture that is different from "wabi-sabi. He believes that the most important approach is to leave traces of actions such as drawing, scratching, heaping, and scraping using various tools, without assuming a finished form.
