Kyosai Kawanabe

During my time in the specialized course, I came across the works of Kyosai Kawanabe.

“When I was a child, I brought back a severed head I found and hid it for sketching, but in the end my parents found it. Before returning it to its original place, he secretly sketched it.” I was fascinated by her pure feelings and attitude as a painter who simply wanted to observe her paintings.

He especially liked "Skull and Lizard" and "Jigoku Tayu and Ikkyu", and it seems that through copying these two works he developed a sensibility that is consistent with his current style of painting.

・Skull and lizard

I was fascinated by the detailed depiction of the lizard. The scales of the lizard are carefully drawn one by one along the flowing lines of the body, and you can feel the vividness of the lizard crawling around.

・Hell Tayu and Ikkyu

I fell in love with your sense of color at first sight. This work uses all colors such as red, blue, green, yellow, and gold, and is beautifully organized. In addition, Ikkyu and the skull are dancing behind Tayu, and the comical expression in the harshness is very typical of him.

She drew this work as her graduation project. The production period was carefully drawn over a year, and it was selected as an encouragement award.