Closing in on Our Artists (Vol. 2) Okamoto Toko | Catalog "Shukado" Winter 2016
For us, Okamoto Toko is an artist Ikenaga Yasunari found. Ikenaga was looking for a "fellow" of a painter who painted a so-called beautiful women painting, like him.
Closing in on Our Artists (Vol. 1) Ikenaga Yasunari | Catalog "Shukado" Summer 2016
Ikenaga is the contemporary painter we have first worked with.
When I met for the first time, he drawed only women with almost self-taught.
When I met for the first time, he drawed only women with almost self-taught.
Women as "bowls"- Interview with Nakahara Arisa | Art Collectors March 2016
Born in 1984, Nakahara Arisa is a young Japanese-style painter who has gained high recognition with her colorful, passionate and dignified woman portraits.
Interview with Nakahara Arisa | Bijutsu no mado June 2013
Q: When did you begin to draw woman portraits?
Nakahara: I have been drawing woman portraits since I was little. However it was until college that I started to aware that it could be a subject of a painting.
Nakahara: I have been drawing woman portraits since I was little. However it was until college that I started to aware that it could be a subject of a painting.
Interview with Okamoto Toko | 2012
Japanese-style painter Okamoto Toko will have a solo exhibition in coming October. She also plans to show a large piece in Art Taipei in November. People are getting to pay attention to her amazing works.
A talk between Ikenaga Yasunari and Abe Kiyoko , two Japanese-style painters| Nov. 2011
A talk between two Japanese-style painters, Abe Kiyoko and Ikenaga yasunari
Yasunari Ikenaga: As far as I am concerned, girls make themselves look like mature adults once at the age of 22.
Yasunari Ikenaga: As far as I am concerned, girls make themselves look like mature adults once at the age of 22.
A talk about “Portraits of beautiful women in modern days” between Ikenaga Yasunari and Morimoto Jun, two Japanese-style painters | Art Collectors May 2011
Composition- the distance between artist and model
Morimoto: Most of your works focuses on the face or the chest, the composition is very impressive. It was like “wow” the first time I ever saw your work.
Morimoto: Most of your works focuses on the face or the chest, the composition is very impressive. It was like “wow” the first time I ever saw your work.
The Encounter with Yasunari Ikenaga by Chiaki Tanaka, president of Gallery Shukado | 2011
It was through a site called All About “Nihonga” (Japanese-style painting) which is no longer updated that I came across Yasunari Ikenaga’s work, or the Yubi-school (Yubi means finger in Japanese), in the feature of promising artists.