Minyoung Kim - Yum Yum, 2023

Roberto Ferri (1978-) "L'ala nera o il tocco dell'angelo" ("The black wing or the touch of the angel") (2020) Tempera on canvas

The Treasure by Michael Parkes (2021)

‘Warrior takes an armored cat for a walk’ (着甲武人猫散歩逍遥図) by Noguchi Tetsuya, 2014. Image widely shared on social media.

There's an image that's been shared on social media dozens of times over the past few years, typically without attribution. The image depicts a shoeless samurai walking an armored cat. The samurai has a helmet with cat ears, and the image appears to be weathered and old, perhaps dating back to Medieval Japan.

In reality, the paint is the creation of Japanese artist Tetsuya Noguchi, whose specialty is to depict samurai in bizarre, often comic situations.

He appears to have mastered traditional techniques to create highly-detailed replica armor that would not be out of place in a museum.

Writing for web magazine artscape Japan, which covers Japan's art scene, Alan Gleason dubbed the style “samurai surrealism”. He explains: ''Every few years an artist gains cachet with pictures of hamburger-munching geishas and the like, painted in the fashion of ukiyoe or Nihonga. Though the gimmick is fun the first time, after a while it gets pretty predictable — good for a laugh or two, but hardly the trenchant commentary on “traditional vs. modern” that the artist usually proclaims it to be. The best practitioners of this genre (Masami Teraoka comes to mind) make it work not because of the obvious satire, but because of their mastery of the classical art form used to set up the spoof. And once in a while the artist's technique is so exquisite that it elevates the work entirely out of the realm of parody, however droll the subject matter. Tetsuya Noguchi's work is just such an example.''

- Info from Animals in Art through History.

Ceasefire Now! (October, 2023)

by Gaza is Palestine

Daniel Mullen, Untitled Interaction No. 9, 2023, Acrylic on linen. 

Some of Alexander Netchaev’s artworks.

Andriy Chernysh / “Crimson time” / 2021 / Galagan Art Museum

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I just wanted to redesign the drawing of the twentieth year

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Antonia Rodrian, Scan Time (Nature), 2023

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Where the Sky Meets the Sea by Michael Parkes (2022)

Takako Ugachi: 'Quatre Saisons' (2020)

Abortion rights supporters attend a rally and march on May 14, 2022, in New York City (2022)

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