In the first grade of primary school, Nara Yoshitomo's first trip was to take a tram to the terminal with his friends. Nara Yoshitomo doesn't like group activities at school, but his classes are not bad, but the comment in the contact book is "daydreaming" for six years. I don't concentrate in class and always look out. "
In art class, Nara Yoshitomo's paintings are well evaluated, but they are not naive, just like those painted by adults. Nara Yoshitomo likes reading comics very much, and almost all the comics brought back by his brother are swept away every week. However, I didn't copy comics. When I came home from school, I was locked in my room and drew a "fantasy painting" with a pencil.
The first record that Nara Yoshitomo bought in his life was the theme song of the TV series Sun Yelang at that time. He also began to listen to his brother's record Chicago. After Nara entered junior high school, in order to become a "standard-bearer against the system", she participated in the club activities of the current affairs society. Later, because the gap between ideal and reality was too big, he quickly quit the club. Later, I entered the judo club in anticipation of the TV series Judo Straight Line.
Nara Yoshitomo began to fall in love with rock music in junior high school. He came into contact with western musicians, such as John Simon, Tony Kosnik and David Bowie. The album cover at that time can be said to have laid his image concept.
At that time, Nara Yoshitomo Nara was impressed by Santana's LP envelope, and he was even more surprised when he learned that it was the work of Japanese designer Tadanori Yokoo. I didn't expect to ask the school art teacher about Tadanori Yokoo, but the teacher couldn't give him any explanation, which made Nara Yoshitomo suffer a great blow.
When Nara Yoshitomo Nara was in high school, she somehow got into one of the best further education schools in the county by mistake, but Nara, who was born with a dislike of learning, spent most of her time wandering the streets. It is said that she was once taken to the police station for psychological counseling.
In high school, Nara Yoshitomo Nara spent most of her time with college students, frequenting cafes and LIVE HOUSE nightclubs, and once worked as a DJ in a ballroom. On the other hand, Nara is keen on reading the poems of Yoshimoto Takashi, Jin Guangqing and Chuye of Zhongyuan.
In terms of club activities, I was afraid of the fierceness of the judo club in high school, so I improved the rugby club and enjoyed three years of scenery. Nara's three-year high school career was also spent in club activities, LIVE HOUSE and drunken time with college students.
After graduating from high school, Nara Yoshitomo entered Musashino University of Fine Arts, dropped out of school and entered Aichi University of Fine Arts, where he graduated. He is currently the most popular illustrator in Japan.
1988 Nara Yoshitomo was a lecturer in the preparatory school of the Department of Fine Arts, and then studied at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf. Learn from contemporary German artists. Later, he lived in Koren, Germany, and began to create and publish large-scale paintings and sculptures. In August, 2000, he left Collen and began to create vigorously.
From 1999 to 2000, Nara Yoshitomo held exhibitions of different scales all over Japan, and gradually became famous, and published many picture books and picture books. 200 1 There is a large-scale Nara Yoshitomo solo exhibition "I don't mind, if you forget me".
Yoshimoto Banana, a famous Japanese woman writer, often collaborates with Nara Yoshitomo, and thinks that she gets inspiration from each other's works. She described Nara Yoshitomo's paintings as "a world that is extremely cold because of pain and loneliness, but its interior is by no means evil. And I would rather live in such a world for a long time. " "Use candy-sweet colors to describe the sadness." I believe that when you look at Nara Yoshitomo's paintings, the strange-eyed child who has been hidden in your heart for a long time will quietly show his face in the corner.
In the international art world, Nara Yoshitomo is regarded as one of the most important modern Japanese pop artists, and his works are exhibited in galleries and exhibitions all over the world.