Beautifully Surreal
August 2, 2005 12:07 AM   Subscribe

The Art of Fuko Ueda From bighorn sheep to pet turtles to musical instruments, these paintings depict a bizarre and beautiful world filled with strange creatures.
posted by mayfly wake (11 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Gorgeous! Thanks, mayfly wake.
posted by LeeJay at 12:30 AM on August 2, 2005


These
are snouters!
!!!
posted by Citizen Premier at 12:51 AM on August 2, 2005


On another note, the women in his paintings look simultaniously sick and attractive. Well, some of them just look sick.
posted by Citizen Premier at 12:52 AM on August 2, 2005


I really like his work--but it almost seems to derivative of earlier surrealist work, such as M.C. Escher and Salvador Dali. I like how he mixed it with a sort of anime style, but I think I'd like it even more if he also combined ancient Japanese art styles. But then I'm no professional art critic (duh).
posted by Citizen Premier at 1:03 AM on August 2, 2005


I think Fuko is female.

/nitpick
posted by mayfly wake at 1:32 AM on August 2, 2005


Love it.
posted by taz at 2:12 AM on August 2, 2005


Nice post some of the pictures are so cute!.
posted by Chimp at 2:56 AM on August 2, 2005


This is an awesome post. I love these paintings or drawings. This is my favorite, I think, the straight razor is kind of chilling.

Does anyone know where it might be possible to buy prints?

mayfly wake, I missed your post on bubble chambers but just went back and looked at it. It's an awesome post also. Thanks.
posted by OmieWise at 7:01 AM on August 2, 2005


Chimp : "Nice post some of the pictures are so cute!"

While I would love to see them, my company's proxy has blocked them under the category "Grotesque".
posted by Bugbread at 7:45 AM on August 2, 2005


I so totally saw these last week at http://theselector.org/...
posted by lazymonster at 2:22 PM on August 2, 2005


They are cute but I found the splashes really annoying or untidy or unecessary or something. If I bought one I'd want to clean it off. I know it's cute to have a trademark or a sigil or something but ummm...I dunno - sloppy. Thanks anyway Mayfly wake. As I say, intrinsically I find them beautiful. I just needed to snark about something ;-)
posted by peacay at 6:31 PM on August 2, 2005


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