Scraps of images showing what looks like a snarling Tyrannosaurus rex and movie character James Bond immediately leap out at the viewer. A majestic landscape of mountains and waterfalls seems to flow out from a frame, while the foreground includes snippets of a garden pond, and there is department store wrapping paper in the lower right corner. Assembled is a mishmash of images transcending time, space, and fact and fiction. The artist describes her own works as “instruments that make proposals about painting.” In this one, she seems to be attempting to escape and overturn the traditional rule that a painting must show just one story or landscape. With this painting, Fukuda Miran, who was 26 at the time, became the youngest recipient of the prestigious Yasui Award for figurative painting. (KATADA Yuko)
Scraps of images showing what looks like a snarling Tyrannosaurus rex and movie character James Bond immediately leap out at the viewer. A majestic landscape of mountains and waterfalls seems to flow out from a frame, while the foreground includes snippets of a garden pond, and there is department store wrapping paper in the lower right corner. Assembled is a mishmash of images transcending time, space, and fact and fiction. The artist describes her own works as “instruments that make proposals about painting.” In this one, she seems to be attempting to escape and overturn the traditional rule that a painting must show just one story or landscape. With this painting, Fukuda Miran, who was 26 at the time, became the youngest recipient of the prestigious Yasui Award for figurative painting.
(KATADA Yuko)