Yellowmenace: ART: Hisashi Tenmyouya (天明屋尚)

October 30, 2014

ART: Hisashi Tenmyouya (天明屋尚) - Basara Bastard

Hisashi Tenmyouya (天明屋尚)

Hisashi is one of Japan's most influential & popular contemporary painters. His work is currently showing at the following galleries, if you'd like to witness the kind of painstaking detail he puts into his art:

Garden of Unearthly Delights
- Oct 10, 2014 – Jan 11, 2015
@ The Japan Society Gallery - 333 East 47th St, New York

Parco Museum Exhibit - Oct 31 - Nov 10, 2014
Parco Museum - Shibuya, Tokyo

Hisashi Tenmyouya (天明屋尚) - http://www.gardenofunearthlydelightsexhibition.com/meet-the-artists/hisashi-tenmyouya/

HAIKU Art Review: Hisashi Tenmyouya (天明屋尚)

Forward thru the past
"Without Art I'd B no one"
Basara bastard

Born in Tokyo, in February 1966. Hisashi Tenmyouya is a Japanese self taught fine artist.

Garden of Unearthly Delights Exhibition

Oct 10, 2014 – Jan 11, 2015

@ The Japan Society Gallery

333 East 47th St, New York, NY 10017

"My manifesto, Basara is based on the subculture of the “street samurai culture” that is excessively decorative and imbued with a rebellious spirit that defies traditional values. Basara stands for anti-authority and anti-aristocratic culture." - Hisashi Tenmyouya

- Interview w/ Laura J. Mueller

For this post, I tried to gather Hisashi's work with traditional Japanese themes & subject matter; samurai, legends, heroes, mythical creatures, etc.

He is very active on Facebook, so it's a great way to stay up to date on his latest endeavors.

"I have taken inspiration from various schools of early-modern (1615–1868) Japanese painting like ukiyo-e, Kanō school, and Maruyama school."

He calls his unique Japanese painting "Neo Nihonga" which revives Japanese traditional paintings as a contemporary art.

In 2000 he established his style, "Butouha" which shows the resistant attitude for authoritative art system through his paintings

In 2010, he proposed a new Japanese art scheme named "Basara" which is extravagant and extraordinary and embodies a Samurai aesthetic like "Basara" in Nanboku dynasty era and "Kabuki-mono" in the end of Sengoku era.