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Title
Flame on a plate
Artist
Kaoru UEDA
Year
1988
Material
oil on canvas

Work Description

Ueda, known for his exquisitely photorealistic paintings of everyday substances such as raw eggs, jelly, salad, and water in a glass, sometimes described his technique as kusorealism or “damn realism” (i.e. more realistic than reality). He said that when he took a photograph of a moment that could not be apprehended by the naked eye, projected it onto a canvas, and painted what he saw, his “mind became a blank.” The key to achieving realism sharper than actually reality was to render the luster on the surface of subjects and the shapes of things visible on the other side of them. In this work, knives, forks, and plates reflect firelight, and a family portrait is seen through the flickering flames. The emotionless quality of the depiction effectively conveys the ruthlessness of war.

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