I myself play tennis ,so I visited this tennis club. There are some old style wooden rackets in the front.
I start playing tennis twice a week. So please wait for my playing video. In addition to this, this tennis club is one of the most traditional club in NY.
By Takuma Tanaka
Tennis club around NYC.
Club house and tennis indoor court.
Takuma Tanaka’s work “Money Money Shut Up” is sold at 40,000USD.
In this article, I will write about the art industry in the wake of the corona disaster.
Restaurants were particularly damaged by the new coronavirus.
So how was the art industry undergo?
Before the emerge of coronavirus, it was common to visit museums and galleries to view artworks.
However, this situation has now changed.
The pandemic has forced museums and galleries to close their doors.
As a result, artists have lost the opportunity to show and sell their works, and have been put in a difficult situation.
People are now less likely to visit the sites and see the works.
In response to this, the art industry is trying to regain its footing online.
Nowadays, you can freely view artworks online without going out.
And there are some benefits exclusive online, like interviews and discussions of those professionals.
Takuma Tanaka has been presenting and selling his works online for the past three years.
The advantage of online is that you can see the work from a distance without having to visit the studio.
On the other hand, there is a weak point that the texture and size of the work cannot be conveyed.
However, the use of images and video is beginning to make up for this shortcoming as much as possible.
At the Takuma Tanaka Studio, we have taken measures to prevent corona infection, so you can feel at ease when you visit the studio.
If you would like to visit us, please feel free to do so.
That's it for this time. Thank you very much for your time.
Last year, I created a lot of works. However, this year I will be producing fewer and better, condensed works. The number of works will be reduced, so the price will be a little higher, but the workes will be more powerful than ever before.
Originally, I mainly painted with oil. This material takes time to dry. Sometimes I paint on the undried painting but those are the exceptions. Basically, I add other colors after the paint has dried.
Recently, I started painting a series "The Sayings" that is inspired by the sayings and poems of old Japan and China. I started the series with five paintings at the same time, and only one of them turned out well, so I published that one in my online store. The other four are unpublished and I have no plans to sell them.
Because of these process of stricket selection, the works are intended to be more sophisticated. And since I use paints and other materials that cost about 4,000 yen each for a thumb-sized tube, the price of the finished work goes up.
I once considered that it would be better to close the studio and paint calm at home if I use oil painting, just because of the economic aspect. However, the studio is large enough to be able to see my work from a distance. There is also the fact that I have been supported by the people who I met here. If I sell through an art dealer, my share of the profits will be greatly reduced. For these reason, I will continue to work hard in the studio.
In my new series, "The Sayings" I am creating works based on the words of great masters from various countries in the past like Japan and China.
These words makes me feel the great and eternal flow of universal history.
This may be felt differently by different people, but I try to abstract it in my own way so that it sticks deeply in the minds of many people.
In the future, I will select and release only such well-made works, and I hope that it please my cliente.
Takuma Tanaka has started a new series full of love.
Even in this terrible pandemic situation, we never lose the hope.
A interview about Takuma’s vision is now published on Yahoo! Finance.
Takuma's work is now on exhibition in Aoyama, central Tokyo. If you are interested in please visit and see it!
This big work is now under dealing with American collector who recently opened a museum in Australia
Art saved me during the most difficult time of my life. And now, with the support of many fans, I am able to make a living as a painter.
Now it is my turn to help those who have lost hope.
I'm thinking of calling it the Takuma Car Project, where I'll be working with the people who have been suffering from the coronavirus pandemic to make painted cars to sell as a charity project.
First of all, I'm going to auction off my paint car from December 25 to January 10. Since the awareness of painted cars is low in Japan, it will also serve as an advertisement. At the same time, we are asking for people who want to paint on the cars or who have lost their jobs.
In the second half of January, myself and some unemployed people will paint small paintings on the cars of those who want to be painted. Our team will gradually improve their skills, and when we get used to it, we will paint a whole car to make a painted car.
This is Takuma Tanaka's Art Samurai Training Series.
When I was staying at a guesthouse in New York and going back and forth between Japan and New York, I met a rather cocky student named M. from Kyoto University. He told me that I was lacking in the logic and basic ideas of art.
Sure, I had learned how to draw, but I didn't have any knowledge of the logic of art or other fields of art. For example, architecture, photography and things that went beyond those, like gardens.
So I enrolled in Yotsuya Art Studium, an experimental art school in Yotsuya that was funded by Kinki University and was established at the time. It was an experimental school, famous for its cutting-edge instructors and experimental approach.
The chief director of the school was Kenjiro Okazaki, and I took his seminar and some classes. When I told Mr. Okazaki that I studied the law in Waseda University and studing for the bar exam, he asked me if I had learned basic law. In this way, we explored the basics, which is one of the characteristics of this school, and there were graduates from overseas art universities and foreign students who studied at japanese Art University.
The first fieldwork was to dismantle Rikugien. We all went to a garden called Rikugien in Tokyo and were given five pieces of paper. The assignment was to take apart Rikugien and show the whole picture. I was puzzled by this. To be continued.
An order-made work is now under progress. This work based on a famous painting of Shigeru Aoki.
Thank you very much for those who took interest in our Special Sale held from 1/11-4/11.
We wish our work satisfy those who got it.
Christmas Sale is now planned to be held in December.
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We have begun to collaborate famous cities in Japan with the popular human sushi series, Please check it out:
https://ttakuma.thebase.in/
My work is now exhibited in an Art fair in Paris.
Exhibition can be seen virtually too.
Please access here.
https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/2634837/focus-art-fair-paris-2020#
There are 4 works.
