中國傳統是因人廢言，我有因言廢人的傾向，看作品時也是如此，先對作品有印象然後才會對作者有興趣，對奈良美智作品印象初始在於吉本芭娜娜《無情/厄運》，她兩本書的封面都放上奈良的作品，文字與畫面還滿協調的，但直到台北當代藝術館推『虛擬的愛』才記得奈良這名子。
『奈良美智』是漢字，但我搜尋時找不到，當用Yoshitomo Nara時才開始見到有趣的東西。
『可愛』不是形容奈良畫風的正確用語，他不是為裝可愛而做的。
看到奈良的出生年，我想的的竟然是Mucha，畫風相差很大，他們兩人相距約一百年，我自己覺得思考邏輯是無邏輯可言。
奈良美智出生於一九五九年，日本的Hirosakim。他繪製的小孩表情總是很欠揍，對世界非常不爽的樣子，這種叛逆是繼承自Kurt Cobain、Mike Ness、Billie Joe Armstrong嗎？
他並不是將自己定位在插畫家，既然如此，為何他以塗鴉的手法創作？誠如那詞窮而了無新意的藝評家們所言『將藝術推向大眾』外，還有別的原因吧！
奈良出生於二次世界大戰後日本經濟起飛的時期，西方通俗文化大量流入日本，普普運動也盛行於此時。他是所謂『鑰匙兒童』，下課後只有漫畫與寵物相伴，大多時間他是自己玩自己，自己陪自己玩。這或許能夠解釋為何他的畫中孩子的遊樂場常是謎樣的空白，那是暗示紛亂與虛無嗎？我認為他是在傳達寂寥與孤獨，不被瞭解。
如果你勻不出與他相處，那麼是沒有資格說愛他的。
自身經歷加上卡漫動及浮世繪、龐克、普普風潮等總和為奈良富含生命力的作品。
奈良筆下的小孩臉上總是帶著不滿。或許當大人成為大人的那一天，往往腦袋也就換了，孩子要的不只是衣食無缺，他更需要有人陪他一起探索這個世界。
Yoshitomo Nara
Nara is internationally recognized for his neo-pop paintings and sculptures that feature big-eyed, alternately sad, mischievous or even malevolent children.Nara creates deceptively simple paintings, sculptures, and drawings that invite one to reconnect with the defiant spirit that comes with youthful optimism and the belief that we may someday change the world.
Born in 1959, Nara was raised in post-World War II Japan, a time and place defined by aggressive economic development and an influx of Western pop culture - including the animation of Walt Disney and Warner Bros. While many of his contemporaries were inundated by the pop components of a renewed Japanese culture, Nara was a "latch-key child," who was raised in the country by working parents. Often left alone to entertain himself, he became a fan of comic books and depended on his pets to keep him company.
Like his contemporaries, Nara's work references childhood and is characterized by a flat, graphic style, but his artistic influences reveal a much broader range, including Renaissance painting, literature, illustration, graffiti and punk rock. Nara's art has been widely integrated into mass culture.
He depicts a time when innocence and unruliness went hand in hand, when emotions were not expected to be filtered, when make-believe was not equated with lunacy and when the world was a fantastic and terrifying place meant to be explored, not conquered.His paintings, drawings and sculptures speak with an originality and authenticity that resonate within the child within us all.
Focal Point: Born in 1959 inJapan,Yoshitomo Nara is one of the most influential artists to emerge from Japan during the Pop art movement of. Yoshitomo Nara's paintings and sculpture of stylized cartoon children and animals evoke a range of memories from childhood.
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