Sand dunes with a low blue sky in the distance: for Kokuryo Tsunero, who from the end of the 1960s returned onward often to worked with the motif of dunes with groups of people, this was a familiar landscape. In the center of the painting lie a nude woman and a second woman dressed in black. The two could almost express the contrast between life and death. In the context of the student movements of the early 1970s, Kokuryo chose sand dunes as the backdrop for many paintings of young people experiencing a sense of isolation in groups. The works exude a stillness that invites introspection in the viewer. As though to emphasize that point further, in this painting footsteps are visible in the dunes, as though the pair has walked here, or someone else has departed.
(MINAMISHIMA Ko)
Sand dunes with a low blue sky in the distance: for Kokuryo Tsunero, who from the end of the 1960s returned onward often to worked with the motif of dunes with groups of people, this was a familiar landscape. In the center of the painting lie a nude woman and a second woman dressed in black. The two could almost express the contrast between life and death. In the context of the student movements of the early 1970s, Kokuryo chose sand dunes as the backdrop for many paintings of young people experiencing a sense of isolation in groups. The works exude a stillness that invites introspection in the viewer. As though to emphasize that point further, in this painting footsteps are visible in the dunes, as though the pair has walked here, or someone else has departed.
(MINAMISHIMA Ko)