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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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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
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
Banging the Drum Offset Lithograph Print, Contemporary, 2020, Unframed
By Yoshitomo Nara
Located in Draper, UT
Banging the Drum 27 x 17 inches , 2020 Offset lithograph "Real One by Yoshitomo Nara Dallas Contemporary Release" 2020 15 x 17 in 73.7 × 63.5 cm
Paper
Swamp Maya Hayuk Screen Print on Silkscreen paper Signed and Numbered
By Maya Hayuk
Located in Draper, UT
MAYA HAYUK Swamp Rare Hand-Finished Print from the Iconic Pictures on Walls Era An exceptional piece from Maya Hayuk's celebrated Swamp series, this silkscreen print hails from the ...
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
No Work Today Screenprint Abstract Figurative Signed and Numbered Pop Art
By Piet Parra 1
Located in Draper, UT
Parra "No Work Today" Signed limited edition screenprint (x/250) 50 cm x 70 cm Excellent condition
Screen
Yoshitomo Nara - Marching on a Butterbur Leaf, Contemporary Art Print, Pop Art
By Yoshitomo Nara
Located in Hamburg, DE
Yoshitomo Nara (1959, Japanese) Marching on a Butterbur Leaf, 2019 Medium: Offset print on archival quality paper (incl. 5 stickers, as issued) Dimensions: 61 × 45.7 cm (24 × 18 in) ...
Offset
Marching on a Butterbur Leaf, Offset Print by Yoshitomo Nara
By Yoshitomo Nara
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Marching on a Butterbur Leaf, 2019 by Yoshitomo Nara Offset lithograph in colors, 2019, on 80# Archival Quality Wove Paper, unframed published by Dallas Contemporary 24.02 x 17.99 ...
Offset
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
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
Broken Treasures - Limited Edition Woodcut Print Pop Art Fine Art
By Yoshitomo Nara
Located in Manchester, GB
Yoshitomo Nara, Broken Treasures, 2012 Woodcut Print in Colours 42.2 x 29.5 cm 16.6 x 11.6 in Edition 14 of 50 Hand-signed, dated and numbered by the artist Unframed - please c...
Woodcut
Untitled
By Yoshitomo Nara
Located in New York, NY
1997 Colored pencil on paper 12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm) Unique Signed and dated in pencil, lower right Framed, excellent condition
Paper, Color Pencil
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.
