Yu Kuramitsu's Oil Paintings

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Us in galaxies

Oil on canvas
72.7 x 60.6cm

Whether human spirits exist in galaxies or galaxies exist in spirits is unknown; however, the universe seen through the sky gives a sense of us being part of the universe.

Dancing spirits

Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 53 x 2cm, 2024

Realized that we are allowed to be happy.
Even though somebody passed away, as long as we are alive, we are allowed to be happy.
For green in the spring and for a lover, our heart is allowed to dance.

The essence of life 1

2024, Oil on canvas, 30.5 x 40.5 x 4cm

Which colors is the essence of life?
After I was thinking about it, the colors were limited for this painting.
I wanted to express the heartbeat with a few colors.

I hope you enjoy thinking about what the essence of life is.

Blue eyes

40.64 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm,
Oil on canvas (Aluminum stretcher), 2023

Things seen before them
The deep blue of the universe

Things seen before them
Joyful sounds Dancing legs
Clear sounds Vivid colors

Transparent world

The universe reflects on the eyes
The world of the blue eyes

Woman's view

2024, 30.5 x 30.5 x 4cm, Oil on canvas

I expressed woman’s view to the loved one. I hope you will enjoy imagining the story of this painting 😊

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.

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.

Music and wind

2017, 100×65.2cm, Oil on canvas and frame　

This is my painting of the music of Tanaka Takeshi. Tanaka Takeshi was a Japanese journalist and musician, and was interned in the Soviet Union from 1945 – 1949. After he returned to Japan, he established a publishing company 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 600,000 Japanese internees. He loved Russian people and always gave a heartful time with his music. This painting was in his home in 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 feel desperate about the beauty of life through his life.

I painted his music along with the following poem:

“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.”

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.

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New Exhibition

Life in Harmony with Nature

Yu Kuramitsu participated in a collective exhibition, “Life in Harmony with Nature,” organized by Angel in Art in GALLERY GRAPPE, Seoul, Korea, from October 31 to November 2024. The 26 artists were participated from Korea, Russia, Spain, and Japan. For details, please click here.

Press

An article about Yu Kuramitsu is published on NIHONBASHIART.JP:

https://nihonbashiart.jp/interview/kuramitsu-yu/

English translation is here.