Remember the lead artist Kishi Tanami (1936-2024)

HF: What is the strongest memory of your childhood? Can you remember the first time you realized that you can draw?

KT: It is time for a long time to remember it when I draw for the first time. The strongest war in my childhood was the war, which was the time when the US Air Force B-29 flew over Tokyo, to make the entire city on fire. I escaped in the shelter of the raid and I was staring at this desperate view with full breathing, and I felt that the heat burned almost my face, so I always covered my face with a wet towel and continued to fear as if it would continue indefinitely.

In my childhood, I have always been afflicted by the mother since I drew the manga all day. I was not interested in things other than watching movies and drawing pictures. The films I watched were more than 500 years, but most of these films were a kind of films.

HF: You have been credited as a pop art in Japan after the war. Do you find that pop art in Japan is different from the rest of the world? How do you explain your convergence to work in this pattern of art?

KT: In my early stage, I was influenced by pop art from the United States and the United Kingdom, especially the Andy Warhol methodology that managed to overcome the borders between the media that completely overwhelmed me, and thus I devoted myself to making experimental films and artistic books. He motivated a number of pop art in American art magazines that I found in the imported book store in Tokyo, creative. Compared to the advanced expression style of pop art in the United States or the United Kingdom, Japanese pop art appears to be more associated with local issues.

HF: As an artist, such a diversity of influences, are there specific artists or patterns that correspond to? What media do you choose to work with these days?

KT: The art that I know is from Giorgio de Chirico and Michelengelo merisi da caaravaggio, among the Japanese art of EDO painters such as Soga Shohaku, Itoh Jakuchu and Hasegawa Tohaku. In particular, Jakuchu works are very complex and very deep, which always overwhelms me.

What inspired me most is the B movies in us. For example, Roy Rogers was in bright fashion decorated with a White House trigger riding as if to move pop art; The scene of Jin Russell was almost showing her chest and straw placing in a bright position in my mind and will never be eliminated; The puzzle and imagination of the creature from the black lake; The skyscraper mocked the footsteps of Lauren Pacal, which walks in a high aftermath. These are all sources of inspiration.

The materials that I use are acrylic paint, fabric, counte, coloring, and therefore, not special materials, but at the time I use the cut glass into pieces to be placed on the surface of the fabric to cause an effect that results from the reflection of light. Inspiration comes to my business from manga, pornographic books, dependent magazines full of scandalous articles, images of murders or pictures of catastrophic crime scenes placed on newspapers, which are not high culture materials.

The inspiration for my business comes from manga, pornographic books, popular magazines full of scandalous articles, pictures of murder or pictures of catastrophic crime scenes placed on newspapers …