Picture from the portfolio "The Cycle of Life"
Picture from the portfolio "The Cycle of Life"
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limited, 100 copies | numbered | signed | lithograph | framed | size 57.5 x 42 cm
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Picture from the portfolio "The Cycle of Life"
Lithograph. Edition: 100 copies on handmade paper, numbered and signed by hand. Size in frame 57.5 x 42 cm as shown.
About Masakazu Kondo
Masakazu Kondo (born 1980 in Osaka, Japan) was a master student of Prof. Katharina Fritsch at the Kunstakademie Münster and Düsseldorf.
Kondo's large-format drawings show every last detail. In a perfection reminiscent of classical traditions, his pictures show animals, rarely plants, against an undefined background.
Kondo on his work: "Drawing is not a copy of reality. In my work, I focus on translating the view of the object to be painted into a drawing. My interest lies in the precise gaze. I have studied this with a wide variety of other artists. I have learned a lot from Cezanne, Velasques and Hokusai (Japanese woodcarver), for example. It's primarily about the visual language, the motif takes a back seat."
Masakazu Kondo lives and works in Osaka.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.