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Hope
Overcoming the disaster
Yu Kuramitsu's Oil Paintings
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The most beautiful moment in the life
1,303mm × 970mm,
51 x 38inches
I expressed death on this painting. Death could be the calmest moment. When my loved one passed away, I couldn’t go to his funeral because of coronavirus. I saw his face from photos of the funeral. I felt his dead face was beautiful and felt I wanted to be next to the loved one until the body rotted away.
Not only the physical, but also I wanted to express the sprit is always close to the deceased.
51 x 38inches
I expressed death on this painting. Death could be the calmest moment. When my loved one passed away, I couldn’t go to his funeral because of coronavirus. I saw his face from photos of the funeral. I felt his dead face was beautiful and felt I wanted to be next to the loved one until the body rotted away.
Not only the physical, but also I wanted to express the sprit is always close to the deceased.
Music and wind
2017, 100×65.2cm, Oil on canvas and frame
I painted Tanaka Takeshi who was a Japanese journalist and musician, and interned in the Soviet Union from 1945 – 1949. After he returned to Japan, he established a publisher in Tokyo and moved to Russia at the age of 68. He was the only one who came back to live in Russia out of 600000 Japanese internees. He loved Russian people and always gave a heartful time with his music. This painting was in his home, Khabarovsk, Russia. After his death, I do not know where the painting went……but by looking at this painting, I hope you will know that you do not have to desperate with the life through his life.
I painted his play with the following poetry……
“The music he plays is of the Russian steppes—the sound of letting you imagine the bog.
The sound cannot be seen.
Feel the color of the melody.
An electronic instrument “Spiilon” gives you not the mechanical sound, but the resonant sound.
Heal the people and heal the spirits in the steppes.
The sound is never forgotten.”
I painted Tanaka Takeshi who was a Japanese journalist and musician, and interned in the Soviet Union from 1945 – 1949. After he returned to Japan, he established a publisher in Tokyo and moved to Russia at the age of 68. He was the only one who came back to live in Russia out of 600000 Japanese internees. He loved Russian people and always gave a heartful time with his music. This painting was in his home, Khabarovsk, Russia. After his death, I do not know where the painting went……but by looking at this painting, I hope you will know that you do not have to desperate with the life through his life.
I painted his play with the following poetry……
“The music he plays is of the Russian steppes—the sound of letting you imagine the bog.
The sound cannot be seen.
Feel the color of the melody.
An electronic instrument “Spiilon” gives you not the mechanical sound, but the resonant sound.
Heal the people and heal the spirits in the steppes.
The sound is never forgotten.”
Light of the universe
53 x 45.5 x 2 D cm
In the state of New Mexico in the U.S., you will get the feeling that a great power showers over you from the vast sky. You can see some local artwork that depicts raised hands. I am one of them who felt the universe in New Mexico and painted the light shower on the background of Mt. Sandia.
Mt. Sandia changes its color from brown to light purple at the time of sunset. The light of the universe will change all the colors of the Earth. I painted with the hope that the painting can purify your mind with the mysterious light of the universe.
In the state of New Mexico in the U.S., you will get the feeling that a great power showers over you from the vast sky. You can see some local artwork that depicts raised hands. I am one of them who felt the universe in New Mexico and painted the light shower on the background of Mt. Sandia.
Mt. Sandia changes its color from brown to light purple at the time of sunset. The light of the universe will change all the colors of the Earth. I painted with the hope that the painting can purify your mind with the mysterious light of the universe.
Hakone
24.2 x 33.3cm
This landscape can be seen from Hakone, Japan. You can see beautiful Mt. Fuji from Lake Ashinoko with the Hakone shrine.
Hokusai also made his work of this place.
Kunstkamera museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia has a photo of this place.
I wanted to paint this place loved by people for a long time.
This landscape can be seen from Hakone, Japan. You can see beautiful Mt. Fuji from Lake Ashinoko with the Hakone shrine.
Hokusai also made his work of this place.
Kunstkamera museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia has a photo of this place.
I wanted to paint this place loved by people for a long time.
The song of Shonan
33.3 x 24.2 x 2 cm
The ocean can be seen from Shonan, Japan.
I used Japanese leaves and sand from the lake Hanka in Spassk-Dal’nii, Russia.
I wanted to express that hope will reach to people who are heartbroken at the tragedy in Ukaraine, from Shonan, the nearest ocean from my city.
The ocean can be seen from Shonan, Japan.
I used Japanese leaves and sand from the lake Hanka in Spassk-Dal’nii, Russia.
I wanted to express that hope will reach to people who are heartbroken at the tragedy in Ukaraine, from Shonan, the nearest ocean from my city.
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