Tsunehisa Kimura
{{Short description|Japanese artist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Tsunehisa Kimura
| birth_date = 1928
| death_date = 2008
| nationality = Japanese
| notable_works = Visual Scandals
| style = Photomontage, Surrealism, Pop Art
}}
Tsunehisa Kimura (木村恒久, Kimura Tsunehisa; 1928–2008) was a Japanese artist influential in graphic design.{{cite news|title=ヴァニラで木村恒久のグラフィック展、柏木博のトークも|url=http://www.ginzanews.com/headline/5802/|access-date=15 June 2010|newspaper=銀座新聞ニュース}}
Style
Kimura's photomontage imagine a surreal world of ongoing apocalypse and often showcase the encroachment of nature and natural phenomenon on man-made structures and the urban built environment.{{Cite web|url=http://www.imprintlab.com/tsunehisa-kimura/|title=Tsunehisa Kimura|date=2010-11-07|website=Imprint Lab|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-12}}
His most famous ‘Visual Scandals’ series was published in book form by Parco, Tokyo in 1979.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artecontemporanea.com/product/kimura-camera-tsunehisa-kimuras-visual-scandals-by-photomontage/|title=Kimura camera : Tsunehisa Kimura's visual scandals by photomontage|website=artecontemporanea.com|language=it|access-date=2020-01-12}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Tsunehisa-Kimura-Japan/dp/B008MLG69S/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=tsunehisa+kimura&qid=1578848955&sr=8-2|via=www.amazon.com|access-date=2020-01-12|title=Tsunehisa Kimura }}
In popular culture
Kimura provided the cover artwork to Midnight Oil's 1984 album Red Sails in the Sunset. Additionally, altered versions of his work Toshi Wa Sawayakana Asa Wo Mukaeru were used for the cover art of Climax Blues Band's 1980 album Flying the Flag, Cut Copy's 2011 album Zonoscope, and Blu's 2013 album York. Cut Copy would eventually go on to win the Artisan Award for Best Cover Art at the ARIA Music Awards of 2011.
Design commentators have drawn attention to similarities between Kimura's work and the CGI envisioning of the Tom Cruise film Oblivion, particularly in the design of promotional material.{{Cite web|url=http://www.jeansnow.net/2016/09/10/tsunehisa-kimura/|title=Tsunehisa Kimura – Jean Snow [.net]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-12}}
References
External links
- [http://www.abc.net.au/arts/headspace/special/montage/page6.htm Tsunehisa Kimura - Scanning The Digital Apocalypse]
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Category:Japanese modern artists
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