#heisei estheticism

[eyesaremosa1cs]

"Vampire Fairy Demon"

By Takato Yamamoto

[2001hz]

Takato Yamamoto: 'Vampire Metamorphosis' (2007)

[disease]

変貌する性的欲望の亡霊 “GHOST OF CHANGING LUST” TAKATO YAMAMOTO 山本タカト | 2003

[eerieayres]

Goatsucker (飲山羊乳者)

The nightjar hangs close to the sheep or goat, to suckle milk at the breast. In turn the sheep eagerly awaits the night, and her nightjar's whisper of newfound secrets.

An art style study I did based on Takato Yamamoto (山本タカト), known for his heisei aesthetic paintings (a fusion of Japanese ukiyo-e x gothic art).

Takato Yamamoto's line drawings are solidly constructed, a blend of detailed nature and smooth, realistic faces. Though, his compositions typically frame characters up closer to bring out the beauty of their faces.

The eyes are often monolid in shape, with a red underline and colorless irises.

Characters, Artwork © EerieAyres

[euphorictruths]

Takato Yamamoto

[camiladenleschi]

Imperial Quarters of the Fifth Prince, 2023.

*I have a whole paracosm inside my head. A world called Rosenthal. And I think it's about time to show these stories through my paintings. From all the princes of the Gyeong clan, Inseo is the only one who carries a secret so dangerous that could be the ruin of his family and the Gyeong dynasty.

[yurinas]

🐛平成🦋

[yoruganakuhanabi]

Grass Labyrinth

-  Takato Yamamoto

[ascollege]

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[mybeingthere]

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.

[junow-honours]

Terms:

Interesting terms and concepts that, even if not directly linked to my current research, influence what I am looking into:

The Dark Triad- Machiavellianism, Narcissism and Psychopathy: Three closely related yet independent personality traits that all have a somewhat malevolent connotation. The three traits are machiavellianism (a manipulative attitude), narcissism (excessive self-love), and psychopathy (lack of empathy)

Freudian Death- Drive: In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive is the drive towards death and destruction, often expressed through behaviors such as aggression, compulsion, self-destruction, sadism, and violence.

Freudian Pleasure- Principle: The pleasure principle is the driving force of the id that seeks immediate gratification of all needs, wants, and urges. In other words, the pleasure principle strives to fulfill our most basic and primitive urges, including hunger, thirst, anger, and sex.

Security Theater: Security theater is the practice of taking security measures that are considered to provide the feeling of improved security while doing little or nothing to achieve it.

Idolatry, aka Idol Worship: Idolatry is the worship of a cult image or "idol" as though it were God.

Foucauldian Power and Punishment Dynamic: Foucault's point is that one cannot exist without the other. The power and techniques of punishment depend on knowledge that creates and classifies individuals, and that knowledge derives its authority from certain relationships of power and domination.

Catharsis: Purification, cleansing. The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.

Guro-kawaii: a Japanese aesthetic that is characterized by a juxtaposition of kawaii visuals with grotesque elements and morbid humor.

Food chain: A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms and ending at an apex predator species, detritivores, or decomposer species. A food chain also shows how organisms are related to each other by the food they eat.

Symbiotic Relationship: Symbiotic relationships are the close associations formed between pairs of species. They come in a variety of forms, such as parasitism (where one species benefits and the other is harmed) and commensalism (where one species benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped).

Ouroboros: The ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail, it is used to represent the eternal cycle of destruction and rebirth.

Faustian Bargain: A pact whereby a person trades something of supreme moral or spiritual importance, such as personal values or the soul, for some worldly or material benefit, such as knowledge, power, or riches.

Heisei Aestheticism: Yamamoto coined the term “Heisei Estheticism” to define a style of art encompassing themes of darkness, bondage, metamorphosis, love and death.

The Jungian Shadow: The shadow, as described by Carl Jung, is the unconscious part of our character or personality that does not align with the ideal version of what we're aiming for, this being the version of us Jung called the ego ideal.

Codex Seraphinianus: An illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by Italian artist Luigi Serafini.

Typology: archetypes, stereotypes

[eyesaremosa1cs]

"Indestructible Night"

By Takato Yamamoto

[2001hz]

Takato Yamamoto: 'Vampire Spellbound' (2007)

[disease]

朽ちざるもの・“THE UNWITHERING” TAKATO YAMAMOTO 山本タカト | 2001

[junowyear3]

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.”

[szheng9]

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