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Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara is one of the most influential artists to emerge from Japan's Pop art movement in the 1990s. Drawing inspiration from the anime and manga characters that he was exposed to during his childhood, Nara creates characters, usually small children, who possess similar cartoonish qualities, with highly stylized features and especially large eyes. However, Nara's illustrations of children, who are often brandishing weapons, are often more menacing and devilish than they are cute and innocent.
Nara has assembled a cult-like following centered around his childlike illustrations although the themes surrounding his work touch on broader social and cultural topics such as violence and the rigidity of social structures in Japan. While he works mainly in painting and drawing, he also experiments in sculpture and installations.
Since his first solo exhibition at Blum and Poe Gallery in 1984, Nara has had nearly 40 solo exhibitions worldwide, from Iceland to Japan to France to the United States.
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Nara Girl Banging On A Drum With Limited Edition Sticker Set Pop Art Print
By Yoshitomo Nara
Located in Draper, UT
Banging the Drum DETAILS 27 x 17 inches (unframed), 2020 Offset lithograph 80# Classic Linen Solar White Cover
Lithograph
Yoshitomo Nara Marching on a Butterbur Leaf Print Contemporary Art
By Yoshitomo Nara
Located in Draper, UT
Edition Details: Year: 2019 Class: Art Print Status: Official Released: 10/01/19 Run: 1,000 Technique: Fine Art Lithograph Paper: 80# archival qual...
Lithograph
Marching On A Butterbur Leaf Print 2019 Exclusive Limited Sticker Set Pop Art
By Yoshitomo Nara
Located in Draper, UT
DETAILS: 27 x 17 inches 2020 Offset lithograph 80# Classic Linen Solar White Cover
Lithograph
Time with you is a Dream come True" Cartoon Signed and Numbered Print
Located in Draper, UT
Year: 2020 Dimensions: 23 x 30 inches Print Details: 12 screens CMYK + 7 spot colors, Satin Varnish, Full-bleed straight cut edges Paper: Sappi McCoy Silk White 130# cover Edition Si...
Screen
Intermezzo TFWHT, 2020, Murakami and Futura, Street Art, Limited Edition
By Futura
Located in Draper, UT
Intermezzo TFWHT, 2020, Murakami and Futura, Street Art, Limited Edition of 100. Hand-signed by artist, Signed by Futura in ink lower right Signed, dated, and numbered by Takashi Murakami in ink lower right. One of the most acclaimed artists to emerge from post-war Asia, Takashi Murakami is known for his signature “Superflat” aesthetic: a colorful, two-dimensional style that straddles the division between fine art and pop culture as it unites elements of anime, Japanese nihonga, and ukiyo-e woodcuts. Common motifs across Murakami’s oeuvre—which spans paintings, sculptures, prints, and more—include smiling flowers, bears, and the Mickey Mouse–inspired character Mr. DOB. They also appear throughout Murakami’s thriving market for merchandise and collectibles. Murakami has presented at institutions including the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, MoMA PS1, Mori Art Museum, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, Museum für Moderne Kunst, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, among others, and his work has sold for millions on the secondary market. Murakami also runs a large influential art production and artist management company, the Tokyo-based Kaikai Kiki Co. Futura (formerly Futura 2000), née Lenny McGurr, pioneered abstract street art in New York during the 1970s. While his contemporaries practiced traditional lettering, Futura combined text, imagery, thin aerosol lines, swaths of vibrant color, and a distinctive use of white space as he created dynamic, futuristic compositions; science fiction and computing technology have long informed his aesthetic. In the 1980s—alongside fellow artists Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Kenny Scharf—Futura...
Screen
Mark Drew Diptych Print Set Exclusive Time to Grind & Keep Their Heads Ringing
By Mark Drew
Located in Draper, UT
TITLE Mark Drew Diptych Print Set Exclusive "Time to Grind" & "Keep Their Heads Ringing" The Peanuts Charles Schulz YEAR 2019 CLASSIFICATION Limited editio...
Screen
Yoshitomo Nara (1959) - Banging the Drum - lithograph on paper - 2020
By Yoshitomo Nara
Located in Varese, IT
Colour offset lithograph on paper, edited in 2020. Open Edition Not signed. Paper size: 68,6 x 43,2 cm Very good conditions. We offer professional packaging and tracked shipping wi...
Lithograph
Yoshitomo Nara Dallas Contemporary 2021 (set of 3 works)
By Yoshitomo Nara
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yoshitomo Nara Banging the Drum, Marching on a Butterbur Leaf, Real One: A set of 3 offset lithographs published by Dallas Contemporary...
Lithograph, Offset
Game - Lithograph - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Game an original Lithograph artwork realized by an anonymous artist of the late 20th Century. Hand-signed illegible. In good condition. Dimention: 70x 50 cm Image Dimensions: 59 ...
Lithograph
True Story Lithograph Print, Contemporary, 20th Century, Unframed
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Derives from a publication of 33 first edition lithographs in four colors, all completed for the final (6th) edition of The Situationalist Times: International Parisian Edition, prod...
Lithograph
That's a Good One
Located in Toronto, ON
Original Drawing 4x4"
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Game - Lithograph - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Game an original Lithograph artwork realized by an anonymous artist of the XX century. Hand-signed illegible. In good condition. Dimension: 70x 50 cm Image Dimensions: 50 x 39.5 ...
Lithograph
Once built for curbs and handrails, these boards now hang beside blue-chip works in major museums and collectors’ homes.
The exhibition includes his portraits of wide-eyed kids with mayhem on their minds, as well as some of the artist’s personal belongings.
