![]() You'll connect with a community of like-minded readers who are passionate about contemporary art, read articles and newsletters ad-free, sustain our interview series, get discounts and early access to our limited-edition print releases, and much more. To look into the eyes of more of Naoto Hattori’s hybrid creatures, follow him on Instagram.ĭo stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. Prints of many of his animals paintings are available to purchase directly from the artist’s online store. Naoto was born in Japan, moved to New York to study art, and has shown in galleries around the world, including Beinart Gallery in Melbourne, Corey Helford in Los Angeles, and Modern Eden in San Francisco. The images are twisted but it feels like meditation and calms me down. I often paint a piece which visualizes myself as a hybrid creature entering the visionary world. ![]() The eye feels like an entrance to the world of visionary memories. Hybrid and mixed media create a huge variety of diagramming and drawing options for landscape representation. I’m not particular about surrealism, but I like to draw an image which can’t be expressed in words, such as feelings, thoughts, and emotions in my mind. The creatures in the paintings are avatars for the artist entering the world of his imagination. Hattori continued painting eyes as he got older and earned a BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts. Back then, I was thinking that it was something everyone could see.” “When I closed my eyes, I could see a colorful eye like a mandala and it kept changing shape like a kaleidoscope. Hattori tells Colossal that he has been drawing eyes since he was three years old. The artist’s style has been labeled as pop surrealist, but Hattori says it’s just what he sees in his mind. These acrylic paintings are small, typically measuring less than 3 inches by 3 inches when unframed. Cat-birds with mushrooms growing on their furry heads and other mashup beasts toe the line between whimsical and eerie thanks to large eyes that reveal unseen forests and landscapes. ![]() The painted creatures often feature round heads and disproportionately large and reflective eyes. We need to understand why this globally significant rock art is deteriorating – now.Japanese artist Naoto Hattori imagines small fluffy animals with healthy doses of fantasy and some unnatural hybridization. ![]() “It would be a tragedy if these exceptionally old artworks should disappear in our own lifetime, but it is happening. “The early rock art of Sulawesi may contribute invaluable insight into the rise of human spirituality and the spread of artistic beliefs and practices that shaped our modern minds,” Oktaviana said. They want to record it using laser 3D technology to preserve it for future generations while also attempting to understand why it’s degrading so quickly and how they may conserve it, Aubert said. Unfortunately, this art is deteriorating at a rate that alarms the researchers. Research has indicated that humans arrived in Southeast Asia between 60,000 and 70,000 years ago, which means that discoveries of art that’s even older are possible. drawing, 110112 Basella rubra (Malabar spinach), vegetable, 605 basil. “Early Indonesians were creating art that may have expressed spiritual thinking about the special bond between humans and animals long before the first art was made in Europe, where it has often been assumed the roots of modern religious culture can be traced,” Brumm said. hybrids (columbine), perennial, 318 'Aranea', gladiolus, 532 arboretums, landscape. This art is older than the “Lion-man” from Germany, a figurine of a lion-headed human which, at 40,000 years old, was until now the oldest depiction of a therianthrope, Brumm said. In South Sulawesi, Indonesia, find some of the world's oldest cave art “So it must have a much older origin, possibly in Africa or soon after we left Africa.” “To me, the most fascinating aspect of our research is that humanity’s oldest cave art is at least 44,000 years old and it already has all the key components relating to modern cognition, hand stencils, figurative art, storytelling, therianthropes and religious thinking,” said Maxime Aubert, study author and professor of archaeological science at Griffith University. The art could even show the foundation of human spirituality, given the supernatural scene depicted. The abstract figures depict a story, which changes our view of early human cognition, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The therianthropes are hunting warty pigs and dwarf buffaloes called anoas using spears and ropes. ![]() The painting itself is intriguing because it shows a group of figures that represent half-animal, half-human hybrids called therianthropes. Cave art depicting a hunting scene has been found in Indonesia dated to 44,000 years old, making it the oldest rock art created by humans. ![]()
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