非池中藝術網

奈良美智，1959年生於日本青森，國際知名當代藝術家。創作以插畫為主，幾乎不含透視背景，而只突顯人物。其對於有著大眼睛和大頭的兒童形象相當著迷，善於塑造各種帶有情感的眼神，其中最具代表性的，即是有著些微憤怒、不屑甚或邪惡的「斜視」眼神。作品中不時呈現年幼的記憶與現實經歷，深具諷刺意味；以沈默方式傳達意欲，卻既清晰又乖戾地直達觀者的心底，十分詼諧逗趣。1990年代後期，其亦開始創作立體作品，主要是將畫作中的孩童或小狗等做成大型立體雕塑，或採不同媒材拼組的方式構成。其 作品已由許多博物館典藏，如美國紐約現代藝術博物館及洛杉磯當代藝術博物館等。

Yoshitomo Nara, who was born in 1959 in Aomori, Japan. He is an international distinguished contemporary artist, whose creations are mainly on illustrations almost without perspective backgrounds and emphasizing on figures instead. He’s fascinated with images of children with big eyes and big heads, well known in depicting the variety of emotions showing through the character’s eyes, especially his famous squint look of slight anger, depreciation or even evil. It’s full of ironic meaning that he presents childhood memories and realistic experiences frequently in his works, and quite funny and amusing that he clearly and disagreeably touches the viewers directly to their hearts although he expresses in silence. In the late 1990s, he also began to create three-dimensional works, mainly making the children or puppies in his paintings into large-scale sculptures, or implemented different media into his artworks. Today his works are in collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and so on.