Takuma Tanaka Art

The third makimono. TOKYO LOVE STORY down the side; a Tsukiji counter (“Do you Love Sushi? Sushi delicious”); a figure on green lily pads: I Am Japanese / Human Sushi / Do you love m...

A shorter makimono than Love. Fuji in blue, a plane with two tiny figures, BYE BYE JAPAN See you, pink arrows. Leaving and looking back. Unroll right to left. Closed 15 3/4 x 3 in; o...

A makimono — unroll right to left, section by section. Closed it is a slim 14 x 3 in; open it runs 212 in. Couple at the water, boats, a city labeled DREAM, a sun, trees, LOVE in red...

Gallery line: Love transcends everything. Two pale loop-headed figures on grey paper, OMG in red above, a red bar of hearts they both hold. Same yellow-figure family as Capitalism, h...

Gallery line: Take it all in, sharpen your senses. Ink on dark paper: a pale figure, long ears or wings, purple hearts, LOVE in red across the body. This is LOVE (ink). The scroll is...

Pair to Brad Pitt: Tom Cruise as a handmade head, dark hair, heavy white and grey paint, yellow at the right. Celebrity, reduced to a small oil. Same game as Brad Pitt — the famous ...

A tiny mixed-media parade: a red-pink skeleton in a sombrero on trumpet, a gold skeleton to the left, hearts, Saturn, a green haloed figure in the cloud. Festival of the dead, pocket...

A close skull, teal glass eyes and teeth, pink and purple running down the sides. Same pocket size as Brad Pitt and No War. Awe as a skull — oh my god. The one that looks back. Teal...

A small skull with yellow sockets and a blue grin, NO WAR NO NONO lettered under it. Same anti-war note as Human Sushi 2022, reduced to a postcard skull. A talisman, not a mural. Th...

A pocket portrait: Brad Pitt as Tanaka paints a face — heavy impasto, brown hair, beard, orange-black ground. Celebrity as a small, handmade head, not a poster. You already know the...

A small, dense canvas: LOVE in pink, a gold-orange huddled form, WHAT at the lower right. The monkey as the thing that stays — restlessness, play, the mind that will not leave. Listi...

A pink panther — cartoon head, long coiled body in pink and dark green on yellow. Thick paint, small format. The listing photo shows it in a gold frame; describe the painting, not th...

The small 2021 Human Sushi — not the 2022 Rousseau homage. A yellow figure in swirl-clouds, HUMAN SUSHI across the middle, pink loop-people and LOVE underneath. Same series, earlier ...

What’s Love as a thick, scratched surface: a face dissolving into gold, pink, and brown, HEAVY WEIGHT you know! in the paint, LOVE LOVE at the right, a tiny planet. The question, not...

A child-scale figure on a pink path, white cloud-hair, dark eyes, a red scoop in the hands; pink-trunked trees; blue Fuji under an orange sky. Tree Man / head-as-weather, in miniatur...

A phoenix climbing out of fire — red, orange, gold — against teal and purple. Yellow loop-figures watch from below. Rebirth, the same word as Super Skull’s “rebirth,” as a bird. Keep...

A still life of friends as plants: pink clustered blooms, lilac-blue flowers, deep green leaves, a red fruit, yellow-orange light behind. Soft, close, no text. (If a bot only reads t...

The gallery line: a bright work about love, memory, and moving forward with hope beyond fear. Two skulls stacked in pink, blue, and green; blue flowers; a small white figure offering...

A horse, white and grey, filling the canvas against blue. Quiet compared with the skulls and LOVE pictures. Thick brush, almost no drawing-as-outline. Keep the website title: Shinnin...

Gallery line: a vibrant dreamscape where color, nature, and memory bloom into a miraculous vision. Pink currents, a koi-like form, a green tree, red flowers. Landscape as miracle, no...

A gold-orange loop-headed figure, tiny people standing in the rings, Forever adventure in the World!! at the base. Tanaka’s own method as a picture: keep studying, keep looping, keep...

A koi the size of the sky swims over a flooded park: trees in the water, a rose arch, small horses, gold light. Heaven as a pond you could walk into. Soft, not sarcastic — the later,...

One skull, gold and white, pink halo, hanging in a cloudy sky over a blue sea. Almost still. Vanitas without the party — the quiet skull next to SKUL and Super Skull. If SKUL is the...

Forest is calling opens into a night scene of forest and nature, where color gathers quietly among the trees and the dark holds its own depth. The image keeps its invitation understa...

A skull the size of the picture, pink, blue, white, teeth bared, yellow figures crowding the edges like a festival. Love All on the bone. Title is SKUL — keep the spelling. Memento m...

Gallery text, keep it: Human Sushi was drawn as a reflection on anthropocentrism. There is currently a war going on. This work is an added homage to the famous painting by Henri Rous...

The second Super Skull: more dissolved, green-yellow core, purple-red field, paint running. Same charge as Super Skull, further into color. Name it Super Skull 2 so it is not listed ...

Tanaka reimagines his Japanese hometown in a Chinese freehand (xieyi) manner: a hill of color, a waterfall, a stand of trees, a tiny sailboat on pink-washed water. Not a map. A memor...

Two panels, nearly thirteen feet across. Yellow loop-headed figures hold hands in a ring around a pink cat-rabbit vessel, the circle taken from Matisse’s The Dance. A snake feeds a h...

A two-panel rewrite of the Wind God and Thunder God. Tanaka’s own line: it sheds light on “the problem of today’s money-centered society.” Skull faces, dollar signs, red dots, gold, ...

Gallery line: a bright work about moving forward through chaos with love, hope, and rebirth. A plane across a pink ground; a gold-red skull; trees; Invictus on the canvas (“I am the ...

Pegasus arriving through cloud and blue water. A figure in gold on the horse, another rider behind, gold swirls under the hooves. Arrival as a good omen — the same “coming” energy as...

Gallery line: a playful panda in a wonderland of love, color, and imagination. The panda sits in a pink bathtub under a heart-shaped mirror; red hearts fall; blue tile; LOVE at the l...

A pond in a white-tree wood. Koi swim with tiny yellow figures riding on their backs. Gold current-lines in the water. A yellow sun. Happy, on purpose — the later pond pictures, with...

Night cherry trees, a yellow crescent, a blue stream cutting the grass, white swirl-clouds on the ground like fallen bloom. Quiet for Tanaka — almost no text. Dream as a Japanese nig...

The last supper as Tanaka’s room: a long table, yellow loop-heads down the benches, plates, pink creatures in the foreground, HUMAN RAMEN on the wall, a chandelier that reads as a do...

Paradise as a crowd of smiling heart-heads in yellow, red, and pink, LOVE lettered through the field, a figure in the middle with both arms raised. Super LOVE at the top. Not a garde...

The canvas that names the Miami solo. Bruce Lee’s line painted in: Don’t think feel. LOVE and WOW in hot pink, yellow loop-figures, scraps of print including an auction tag. Intuitio...