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Title
Self-Portrait with Landscape
Artist
Tadashi TONOSHIKI
Year
1975
Material
oil on canvas

Work Description

The figure holding an extinguished candle is evidently Tonoshiki himself. Surrounding him are images related to the atomic bombing – a scorched cityscape, a person with keloid scars, a box with a mushroom cloud rising from it – creating a surreal and disturbing scene. The artist lost his parents in the bombing of Hiroshima, and was himself exposed to radiation in the city at the age of three. These experiences shaped the themes that he pursued throughout his career. The sharp, stabbing pointillism seen in this work was further emphasized in works such as those depicting his parents’ belongings, and marked an important phase in the artist’s diverse career.

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