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Saint Sebastian ( 聖セバスチャン ) Takato Yamamoto 2005

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Takato Yamamoto was born in Akita prefecture (Japan) in 1960. After graduating from the painting department of the Tokyo Zokei University, he experimented with the Ukiyo-e Pop style. He further refined and developing his “Heisei Esthetics” style. His first exhibition was held in Tokyo, in 1998.

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Takato Yamamoto and Heisei Aestheticism  !!

Discovered Yamamoto’s work in high school and still remain a huge fan of his work, I love love him 😊 He will remain as one of my most influential artists

“Influence of ukiyo-e with Japanese pop art and Western gothic art. Yamamoto coined the term “Heisei Estheticism” to define a style of art encompassing themes of darkness, bondage, metamorphosis, love and death. The dark, brutal narratives within Yamamoto's paintings never reveal acts of violence.”

Takato Yamamoto – Exploring the Erotic World of Takato Yamamoto’s Art

Yamamoto’s art is replete with recurring themes such as adolescence and deterioration, purity and devastation, gloom and brightness, terror and attraction. He combines the bizarre and the sexual.

Yamamoto’s subjects are frequently confrontational, capturing your attention with their striking look. Pain and joy, life and death, enslavement and surrender—all of these are frequently intertwined. 

“Takato Yamamoto is drawn to depicting renowned Western stories such as Salome and Saint Sebastian. His vivid representations of sex and death are reminiscent of the works of Aubrey Beardsley, an English illustrator who was one of the most controversial artists of the Art Nouveau era. 

Saint Sebastian was a religious martyr and saint who is supposed to have been murdered during the oppression of Christians by Roman Emperor Diocletian. In literature and art, he is frequently shown bound to a pillar and slain with arrows. He is considered a martyred saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Oriental Orthodox Church. Since the Renaissance, painters have found the picture of the martyr Sebastian to be a popular topic.”

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Research - Contemporary Artist - Takato Yamamoto

Takato Yamamoto was born in Akita Prefecture (Japan) in 1960. After graduating from the painting department of the Tokyo Zokei University, he experimented with the Ukiyo-e Pop style. He further refined and developed that style to create his “Heisei estheticism” style. His first exhibition was held in Tokyo, in 1998.

Resources from: https://www.instagram.com/takatoy999/ https://www.wikiart.org/en/takato-yamamoto

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Takato Yamamoto

was born in Akita Prefecture (Japan) in 1960. After graduating from the painting department of the Tokyo Zokei University, he experimented with the Ukiyo-e Pop style. He further refined and developed that style to create his “Heisei estheticism” style. His first exhibition was held in Tokyo, in 1998.

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Takato Yamamoto was born in Akita prefecture (Japan) in 1960. After graduating from the painting department of the Tokyo Zokei University, he experimented with the Ukiyo-e Pop style. He further refined and developed that style to create his “Heisei Esthiticism” style. His first exhibition was held in Tokyo, in 1998.

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Takato Yamamoto, or the revival of a style

Some classes ago (maybe a lot) we looked at some big hits in traditional Japanese art. Among the beautiful pieces we saw, having for example the famous The great wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai and other prints by that big artist, the Ukiyo-e style was really prominent. Long story short, Ukiyo-e is the name of the most famous genre of Japanese art. As we were told, this genre mostly depicts typical subjects, religious and folk scenes, flora and fauna and some raunchy stuff called shunga.

Ukiyo-e has been really influential in the Western world because of the displays of dimension and depth and the way nature is shown. But it also has been a big influence on the career of Takato Yamamoto.

Takato Yamamoto was born on January 15 (so he's a Capricorn and that's funny because he loves his work and became famous doing his thing as most lucky caps) fifty seven years ago. He studied painting at Tokyo Zokei Uni and he developed a style called Ukiyo-e Pop which he later re-defined as "Heisei aesthetics" in the nineties and early 2000 s, the Heisei era in Japanese traditional eras. There are a lot of Western and European influences in his pieces, as there is a lot of skulls, blood and other edgy-dark elements, nudism and sex themes, nature and plays on traditional topics. He even has a print with some girls that look like Elizabeth Siddal, the model of pre-raphaelites (the redhead girl from Ophelia, Proserpine, Medea and English art in general who looks like Florence + the Machine). 

I think this guy makes really good prints and he really has a talented vision of art. Anyways, sometimes he's too edgy for me and he has a serious problem with the same face syndrome. At the end of the day, though, I love his use of color and how he composes, I read that he has even been compared to Gustav Klimt (the guy behind The Kiss) because of how he merges elements and color. But again, a lot of his art looks like early 200 s Death Note fan art and the works a talented 2005 eroguro would have made.

Now I'll leave you with his most famous work + stuff I really love. The last one is my personal favorite because of how delicate the whole scene looks and the golden ornaments outside the main illustration. I also love the inuyasha-like picture. I'm sure I've seen the other ones a lot in social networks or whatsapp profiles. Sorry for the long post!!

- Ignacia Salazar

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Takato Yamamoto

Takato Yamamoto is widely known for his "Ukiyo-e Pop" style of painting. He explores themes of darkness, bondage, vampires, metamorphosis, love and death. The perspective is always calm and serene - never depicting violence - rather, it is impending or just completed.

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Takato Yamamoto was born in Akita prefecture (Japan) in 1960. After graduating from the painting department of the Tokyo Zokei University, he experimented with the Ukiyo-e Pop style. He further refined and developed that style to create his “Heisei Esthiticism” style. His first exhibition was held in Tokyo, in 1998.

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Takato Yamamoto was born in Akita Prefecture (Japan) in 1960. After graduating from the painting department of the Tokyo Zokei University, he experimented with the Ukiyo-e Pop style. He further refined and developed that style to create his “Heisei estheticism” style. His first exhibition was held in Tokyo, in 1998.