The Monkey King Art Collection

Sun Wukong (孙悟空) Art Collection
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curated by YellowMenace (20+ images)

    For over 400 years the tale, Journey to the West has been entertaining & inspiring audiences around the world. The handsome Monkey King is such a richly complex character, developing & changing through the course of his miraculous adventures.  

   Here I present for you, 16 artists from 8 countries with their interpretations of the Sage Equal to Heaven.

Felix Ip - China

ART: Hisashi Tenmyouya (天明屋尚) - Future via Past

Hisashi Tenmyouya (天明屋尚)

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   Hisashi is one of Japan's most influential & popular contemporary painters. His work is currently showing at the following gallery, 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

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.

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

Hisashi Tenmyouya (天明屋尚)

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   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

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

ART: Agarwen - Mexican Samurai

Agarwen
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HAIKU Art Review:

Tattooed tough guys glare
Pale submissive nymphs shy glance
Watercolor dreams

   Mexican artist Agarwen is obsessed with Japanese culture, so he doesn't neatly fit into my Whitey Goes AZN segment.

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HAIKU Art Review: Yokai (妖怪) by Yellowmenace

Whimsical creatures
In fantastic fairy tales
Live again thru art

   Arrogant priests become 'Tengu' after death. They live in the mountains & can be good or evil.

   A video from The Japan Society listing the various types of Yokai.