Painting Metaphors on Canvas
Tsuda, Margaret, The Christian Science Monitor
THE work of Hiroshi Asada presents us with painted metaphors of his life - interior and exterior - and, if we take the time to search for them, of our own lives. His paintings are engaging. They invite the eye to take pleasure in the elegantly painted textures and surfaces. They challenge the emotions and the intellect to riddle out hidden meanings in the ambiguities of the objects and the spaces.
Born in Kyoto, the cultural heart of Japan, he watched his father and older brother who were both well-known painters in the traditional style known as Nihon-ga. He helped with the mundane studio tasks but did not try to learn painting from them. Plainly, he wanted something …
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Article title: Painting Metaphors on Canvas.
Contributors: Tsuda, Margaret - Author.
Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor.
Publication date: December 12, 1991.
Page number: 17.
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