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“Fantasy of a pet cat” (2006) by Tokuhiro Kawai
Japanese contemporary artist Tokuhiro Kawai uses his mastery of oil painting to create surreal images that invoke the Italian painters of the High Renaissance.
But instead of biblical figures, kings and queens, Kawai infuses his paintings with cherubs, children and cats. Lots of cats.
An article by former students (Takegasa, Lee) and Tokuhiro (M2) was accepted to Chem.
“Hallucination of pet cats to be in contact” (2013) by Tokuhiro Kawai
Traditionally, the classical approach to painting has always been intended for narrative: heroes, saints and the divine were painted in their glorious feats of battle or miraculous miracles.
But the task of storytelling has since been ceded literature and film. Kawai attempts to rekindle this fragile bond, but in a contemporary context in which religion and epic battles are less a part of our lives. “Human beings live their life carrying this kind of contradiction or unanswerable problems.