Ryoko Kimura Art Works

ABOUT

木村了子(きむら・りょうこ)⇨ CV

現代東洋の美しい男性(イケメン)をモチーフとした屏風絵や掛軸などの絵画作品を発表。伝統的な日本画の技法や絵画のスタイルを継承しつつ、異性であり愛の対象である「男性」を時にはエロティックに、時にはコミカルに様々なテーマで描き出す。王子様や人魚、ターザンやカウボーイなどファンタジックな男性像が織り成す作品郡は、過去と現在、和と洋が絶妙に交差する独特の画風を形成。絵画制作ほかフィギュア作品や九谷焼制作、映画美術への参加など、幅広い分野で活動。

RYOKO KIMURA ⇨ CV

Ryoko Kimura was born in Kyoto, Japan.Ryōko Kimura. Ryōko Kimura is a painter with wide-ranging knowledge and interest in Japan’s pictorial heritage, including Chinese-style landscapes, Zen Buddhist ink portraiture, and Ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints. At the same time, her works are unmistakably contemporary due to Kimura’s subject matter of choice, namely beautiful males, especially the movie idol and pop singer types commonly reproduced in Japanese teen girl magazines. Her work recalls the Edo-period Ukiyo-e pictorial tradition, with its obsessive focus on beautiful female entertainers, courtesans, and other paragons of womanly beauty, which she substitutes with images of beautiful young males placed in fantastic settings. Kimura also inserts humor into her work, rendering her male subjects in a cartoonish manga-style, and placing them in exaggerated poses, allowing her paintings to fluctuate between the erotic and the comic.