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Shintaro Ohata
Shintaro Ohata is an artist from Hiroshima, Japan who is both a painter and a sculptor.

Artists who are both sculptors and painters are not unusual. Ohata, however, frequently combines the two mediums in single works in which a painting and sculpture are displayed together as a mixed two dimensional – three dimensional work.

The sculptures are textured and painted in a way that carries forward the colors and textures of a painting. The painting and sculpture are then arranged and lit in a way that gives them additional visual continuity. These form scenes, in which the painting acts as a backdrop for the sculpture and the sculpture acts as a three dimensional projection of the painting.

As remarkable as the effect is in photographs, I would love to see these in person.

Ohata also paints stand-alone paintings in acrylic, in which the figures in the paintings bear an uncanny resemblance to his sculpted figures (above, bottom).

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Comments

5 responses to “Shintaro Ohata”

  1. LOVE the idea of marrying sculpture and paintings this way! I, too, would LOVE to see these works in person!

  2. Very interesting. I wonder how far and in what other directions this idea could be taken…

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    Doug Condon

    Wow, awesome work!! Really interesting technique.

  4. Just love this whole concept, thanks for sharing!

  5. so unique technique, very interesting.