{"id":408201,"date":"2023-05-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=408201"},"modified":"2023-06-12T11:23:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T15:23:56","slug":"yoshitomo-nara-in-the-floating-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/yoshitomo-nara-in-the-floating-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoshitomo Nara Puts a Punk Rock Twist on the Traditional Prints of His Ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/prints-works-on-paper\/figurative-prints-works-on-paper\/yoshitomo-nara-floating-world-portfolio-16\/id-a_11241692\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1318\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/yoshitomo-nara-in-the-floating-world.jpg\" alt=\"Yoshitomo Nara's &quot;In the Floating World&quot; collection of 16 prints, 1999\" class=\"wp-image-408669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/yoshitomo-nara-in-the-floating-world.jpg 1318w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/yoshitomo-nara-in-the-floating-world-547x350.jpg 547w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/yoshitomo-nara-in-the-floating-world-950x608.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/yoshitomo-nara-in-the-floating-world-120x77.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/yoshitomo-nara-in-the-floating-world-768x492.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1318px) 100vw, 1318px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/prints-works-on-paper\/figurative-prints-works-on-paper\/yoshitomo-nara-floating-world-portfolio-16\/id-a_11241692\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In the Floating World<\/a>,\u201d 1999, by Yoshitomo Nara, offered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/curio-tokyo-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CURIO Tokyo Gallery<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As a Japanese artist living in Germany from 1988 to 2000, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/yoshitomo-nara-1959-japanese\/art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yoshitomo Nara<\/a> felt like an outcast. He\u2019d moved there to study at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kunstakademie-duesseldorf.de\/de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf<\/a> and settled in Cologne after art school to grow his career. He looked different from the Germans and didn\u2019t quite have a handle on the language. Added to that, he was a bit of a punk rocker and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/style\/street-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">graffiti<\/a> writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To express himself, Nara would draw cartoonish characters of rebellious, grumpy-looking, wily-eyed kids and dogs, which is still his m\u00e9tier today. Little did Nara know back then that his characters and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartstory.org\/movement\/superflat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Superflat<\/a> style would make him an art star in the 21st century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the fantastic \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/prints-works-on-paper\/figurative-prints-works-on-paper\/yoshitomo-nara-floating-world-portfolio-16\/id-a_11241692\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In the Floating World<\/a>\u201d suite of 16 reworked woodcut and Fuji Xerox prints, offered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/curio-tokyo-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CURIO Tokyo Gallery,<\/a> Nara directs his angst at the historic <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/buy\/ukiyo-e\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ukiyo-e<\/a><\/em> (floating world) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/buy\/japanese-woodblock-prints\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">woodblock prints<\/a> created by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/introspective-magazine\/japanese-woodblock-prints\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Japanese masters<\/a>. Each composition alters or marks over a different famous scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We see a blond girl carefreely skiing down the snow-packed slope of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/katsushika-hokusai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hokusai<\/a>\u2019s <em>Red Fuji<\/em>, 1830\u201331; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/buy\/toshusai-sharaku\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sharaku<\/a>\u2019s 1794 portrait of actor Ichikawa Ebizo embellished with a mohawk and punky spikes on his kimono; a gigantic, solemn pup clinging to a Lake Biwa peninsula in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/ando-hiroshige-1797-1858-japanese\/art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hiroshige<\/a>\u2019s moody <em>Night Rain at Karasaki<\/em>, ca. 1835. Other scenes are made fun of and contemporized with scrawled phrases like \u201cNo Fun!\u201d \u201cWhat\u2019s Going On?\u201d and \u201cNo Nukes.\u201d Given that Nara\u2019s works generally have plain backgrounds, these are some of his fullest and busiest compositions to date, even if they riff on works of long-dead printmakers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/wall-decorations\/prints\/style\/edo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Edo period<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nara made \u201cIn the Floating World\u201d in 1999, just before he returned home after a dozen years overseas. Maybe the compositions were a coping mechanism as he grappled with feeling like an alien in Europe and ambivalent about going back to Asia. 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