With Japan foremost in our minds, prayers, and fervent hopes for some relief for the stricken, I searched for today's subject among their long tradition of artists of all types.
Birth dates for most of those wonderful Japanese painters from previous centuries aren't available, but I found an interesting subject in surrealist photographer Kansuke Yamamoto (30 March 1914-1987). He was a seminal experimental photographer, poet and member of the Japanese avant-garde, born in Nagoya, active in Japan's artistic circles from 1931 until 1987. A true hidden treasure in the world of photography.
Yamamoto’s highly aesthetic imagery can be seen as a Japanese interpretation of the language of European surrealism with many works in dialogue with artists such as Salvador Dali, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Man Ray, Rene Magritte, and Jean Arp. Yamamoto published over a 40-year span in avant-garde journals with limited circulation in Japan. The strangeness and transgressive nature of his imagery was considered threatening, inviting persecution of the artist by the Tokko (Thought Police).
Natal chart set for 12 noon. Ascending sign and Moon degree will not be accurate.
To identify Kansuke Yamamoto's pull towards surrelaism the planet to watch is Uranus (eccentricity, the unexpected). In this photographer's natal chart Uranus is in the sign of its rulership, Aquarius, so it's presence is pure and unadulterated, one could say. In addition, here Uranus conjoins Jupiter, planet of excess and exaggeration. What better astrological representation of this art style could there be? Venus, planet of the arts is in Aries and in harmonious sextile to the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction. Yamamoto's pioneering Aries Sun is also significant in his drive to be among the first in his field to create something new.
His photographs are strange, but in them it's easy to detect themes from Magritte's paintings, Salvador Dali's or echoes of styles of other European surrealist painters.
CHRONICLES OF DRIFTING
STAPLES IN FLESH
REMINISCENCE
SCENERY WITH OCEAN
Birth dates for most of those wonderful Japanese painters from previous centuries aren't available, but I found an interesting subject in surrealist photographer Kansuke Yamamoto (30 March 1914-1987). He was a seminal experimental photographer, poet and member of the Japanese avant-garde, born in Nagoya, active in Japan's artistic circles from 1931 until 1987. A true hidden treasure in the world of photography.Yamamoto’s highly aesthetic imagery can be seen as a Japanese interpretation of the language of European surrealism with many works in dialogue with artists such as Salvador Dali, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Man Ray, Rene Magritte, and Jean Arp. Yamamoto published over a 40-year span in avant-garde journals with limited circulation in Japan. The strangeness and transgressive nature of his imagery was considered threatening, inviting persecution of the artist by the Tokko (Thought Police).
Information from http://azurebumble.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/kansuke-yamamoto-photography/
Natal chart set for 12 noon. Ascending sign and Moon degree will not be accurate.
To identify Kansuke Yamamoto's pull towards surrelaism the planet to watch is Uranus (eccentricity, the unexpected). In this photographer's natal chart Uranus is in the sign of its rulership, Aquarius, so it's presence is pure and unadulterated, one could say. In addition, here Uranus conjoins Jupiter, planet of excess and exaggeration. What better astrological representation of this art style could there be? Venus, planet of the arts is in Aries and in harmonious sextile to the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction. Yamamoto's pioneering Aries Sun is also significant in his drive to be among the first in his field to create something new.
His photographs are strange, but in them it's easy to detect themes from Magritte's paintings, Salvador Dali's or echoes of styles of other European surrealist painters.
CHRONICLES OF DRIFTING
STAPLES IN FLESH
REMINISCENCE
SCENERY WITH OCEAN
