“The Dawn of the Arabesque” 唐草黎明期
| Nº | No.0019 |
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| Title | “The Dawn of the Arabesque” 唐草黎明期 |
| Material | Canvas, oil painting |
| Size | S120号（1,940×1,940mm） |
| Date of production | 16th, July, 2022 |
| Exhibition name | 2022 Gifu Art Exhibition (Grand Prize: Gifu Art Exhibition Award) |
Picture description
There is an old legend about a legendary tree: the Arabesque. The legendary story tells that the fruit that grows from this tree can protect a person from any epidemic. This painting is about this fantasy, a story about some girls who have sprung from these arabesque fruits, and have met tomorrow.
This is the Dawn Period: “The dawn period is when a new era begins.”
"There are a lot of painful things in the world, but actually, I'm at a point in my life where I don't want to be hurt anymore", explain the Japanese artist. "During my drawing time, painful things disappear".
"I know a painting is finished when I'm painting, and suddenly, I hear a warm melody from the picture. That's when I finish the painting with my signature, and put down the brush".
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If you look closely at the wooden platform on the floor, don't it look like the keys of a grand piano? The wind passing in front of the dog in the foreground blows towards the Yoro Mountains in the rear left. The music that plays there is Vivaldi's "Spring". You can hear it, right?
A few more things in the artwork.
In the background, you can see Mount Ibuki, a sacred mountain in Japan.
Additionally, there are two pots with sprouts of the arabesque tree.
Three clouds of whales, two parents and one children.
Four dogs and cats are placed around the person.
There are five people.
As an added point, I drew six fonts, to protect the front. ha ha ha.
If you have the opportunity to see the original painting, it is a fairly large painting, so I invite you to sit in front of the fountain, and take a photo.
[Bonus point] Look into tomorrow, to the future, so that it becomes one with the image. The main character of this painting is A・Na・Ta. (yourself)
Furthermore, this painting is a serie. This preliminary stage painting is an arabesque rokugo (oil painting). In the image, a woman brings home two seeds, from the arabesque tree.
About color scheme
The color scheme of the clothes she wears is gradated to create a hue circle of yellow, orange, red, purple and blue starting from the front.
About composition
The light blue Mt. Ibuki, the ridge line of the figure, the red tree in front of the mountain, and the girl with her hand raised are placed in the same arrangement.
The wooden deck is drawn in vanishing point perspective so that the eye is drawn to the green star (between the girl's eyebrows).
The line of the head (pink color) incorporates a golden spiral to match the spiral shape of the arabesque in the flower pot. .
The line of the flower pot is aligned with the horizontal line (orange dotted line), and in order to eliminate the height discrepancy due to the front and back difference between the front pillar and the back pillar, the back pillar is placed on a stand one step higher. .
Creative process
Cutting the canvas
Assembling the canvas frame
Other points
As if it were a secret, my signature is hidden by the grass.
Oil paints have an ink-like transparency, something that pastels and watercolors do not have. Using hair-thin brushes, paint can be applied in multiple layers to create soft texture on the skin and transparency on the eyes (about 500 hours of drawing).