This work was created by Fujii Kenji for the exhibition “NIHONGA Painting: Six Provocative Artists” (2006) at the Yokohama Museum of Art. His inspiration was Imamura Shiko's "Scenes from the Tropics: Morning and Evening (study)," which is also in the museum collection. To create the work he first traveled to Malaysia for research. The painting shows a reticulated python’s glistening body; people going about their lives, an amalgam of Islam and Hindu faiths and Greater China culture; a landscape of green trees surrounded by tropical light; and, an airplane disappearing into the wide sky at sunset. In this way the strong impressions from his trip are weaved together into a single story. And that afterglow is then conveyed to the viewer, as though they too had been on the journey. Fujii says it was a modeling class he attended at the Yokohama Museum of Art when he was in fifth grade that set him on the path to become an artist.
(YATSUYANAGI Sae)
This work was created by Fujii Kenji for the exhibition “NIHONGA Painting: Six Provocative Artists” (2006) at the Yokohama Museum of Art. His inspiration was Imamura Shiko's "Scenes from the Tropics: Morning and Evening (study)," which is also in the museum collection. To create the work he first traveled to Malaysia for research. The painting shows a reticulated python’s glistening body; people going about their lives, an amalgam of Islam and Hindu faiths and Greater China culture; a landscape of green trees surrounded by tropical light; and, an airplane disappearing into the wide sky at sunset. In this way the strong impressions from his trip are weaved together into a single story. And that afterglow is then conveyed to the viewer, as though they too had been on the journey. Fujii says it was a modeling class he attended at the Yokohama Museum of Art when he was in fifth grade that set him on the path to become an artist.
(YATSUYANAGI Sae)