Japanese Art ~ Rin Nadeshico

富嶽蛇遊戯図 - Snake, Doll and Female Student

I love art and all the different forms it comes in from street art (Banksy) to advant garde (Henri Matisse) and to Japanese contemporary art with a provocative twist (Tetsuya Ishida). I was delighted to come accidently across an artist by the name of Rin Nadeshico.

According to her ‘about’ page, Rin focuses on women in most of her paintings and illustrations, trying to show the intelligence and resolution of women. The crab is also a symbol for women. Rin successfully blends her modern females with traditional Japanese styles through which she effortlessly captures the ’spirit’ of Japan.

In the early 19th century, Yamato Nadeshiko (大和撫子) is referred to by Japanese as a ideal Japanese woman with loyalty, domestic ability, and wisdom in the male dominated society. Rin Nadeshico 撫子凛 (*Nadeshico spelled with c , not k ) is an up-and-coming Japanese female graphic artist who illustrates a new definition of Yamato Nadeshiko in the 20th century. The girls she draws are independent, with strong personality, and sometimes aggressive with angelic and seductive glares.

Born on 15th Dec 1984 in Chiba prefecture, Japan, Rin Nadeshico’s computer graphic illustrations are montages of Mt. Fuji and other traditional Japanese sceneries, with school girls lounging around with various oversized creatures. School girls and tentacles are two common elements in many modern Japanese art, but Nadeshico doesn’t limit herself to giant beasts with tentacles, but giant beasts of all sorts, mingling with the iconic Japanese schoolgirl like lions to lambs.

To see more of her works, please do visit her website.

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