pictures_before_a_picture_book_ryoji_arai 2 ブックアート The gentle Japanese style handwriting

The gentle Japanese style handwriting unique to the Heian period is displayed

Crudas was a pioneering curator who sought a new style of museum

He even began to think that museums were in fact a hindrance

At that time in Portland

pictures_before_a_picture_book_ryoji_arai 2 ブックアート The gentle Japanese style handwritingNo one ever asked me to paint with dark colours. But all along, that was the kind of painting I wanted to make. Ryoji Arai This book brings together twenty three newly created original paintings by picture book artist Ryoji Arai. Although they do not tell a single continuous story, every image seems to contain the beginning of a future picture book. They are filled with a nostalgic darkness and gentle light, as though Arai's own memories have become