Tuesday, 11 November 2008

Incredible Paintings By Tetsuya Ishida


Tetsuya Ishida was a talented Japanese painter whose paintings were known for their dark portrayal of Japanese life. The characters in his paintings appear unhappy and often their bodies are in pieces or part of some machine or other object.

Tetsuya Ishida died in 2005 after being hit by a train leaving behind around 180 works created during his 10 year art career.

2 comment(s):

mister anchovy said...

Interesting painting.

Anonymous said...

Wow, I love those kind of surreal images! What's great about that kind of paintings is that you can find any meaning that you like for it. For examples, the "human boxes" could be interpreted like human going to works like packages... Just one thing though, all of his paintings looks sad :(