30 Extraordinary Hiroshi Nagai Paintings That Define the Visual ...
Jun 27, 2019 · There was also a new genre to tie it all together: City Pop. The easiest way to explain City Pop is to imagine soft rock meeting soft pop with sunshine and swimming pools. And sprinkle a bit of the 80s as a garnish.
Dazzling Colorful Paintings By Hiroshi Nagai That Illustrate 80s City ...
Hiroshi Nagai is a talented Japanese artist, known for his beautifully polished style, dazzling colorful and visually appealing artworks that simultaneously evoke a sense of isolation from the busy world. From mountains, beaches, palm trees, urban landscapes, play grounds to swimming pools and villas, his paintings feature minimalist universe.
30 Extraordinary Hiroshi Nagai Paintings That Define the Visual ...
Jun 27, 2019 · Japanese painter Hiroshi Nagai started his career in King Terry’s studio and made a name for himself in the early ’80s. His depictions of West Coast America during the ’50s worked wonders during Japan’s economic boom from the 80s. There was also a new genre to tie it all together: City Pop.
Artist Hiroshi Nagai, Painter of ‘80s Paradise - Danny With Love
Mar 6, 2024 · In the wake of the Great Recession, City Pop was resurrected as online music/art phenomenon “Vaporwave” (ヴェイパーウェイヴ). The remixed aesthetic borrowed from Nagai’s visual lexicon of palm trees, vintage cars, and cityscapes awash in dusk colors.
The sun-drenched Americana of Japanese artist Hiroshi Nagai
Apr 24, 2019 · Defining the visual language of ’80s City Pop. Pristine beaches, sparkling pools, endless blue: Hiroshi Nagai’s paintings capture the West Coast sensibility on an array of record sleeves, drawing on a kindred spirit between the optimism of 1950s USA and Japan’s bubble economy in the 1980s.
City pop - Wikipedia
Thus, "city pop(s)" is a Japanese-made English term that record companies and music magazine editors began using in the late 1970s to promote and criticize music from Japan and abroad that has an urban and sophisticated atmosphere.
HIROSHI NAGAI: Japan’s Sun-drenched Americana - tokyo cowboy
Jul 21, 2021 · Hiroshi Nagai developed an oeuvre of Americana pop style paintings that served as a backdrop to the Japanese City Pop movement of the late 70s and 80s.
City Pop Aesthetics - Van Paugam
Oct 21, 2020 · Nothing speaks to lovers of Japanese City Pop more than neon. Singers name their songs after it, artists paint it in their scenery, and its electric feel embodies the spirit of capitalism.
City Pop Aesthetics Then and Now - Medium
Aug 31, 2023 · City Pop was a subgenre of Japanese pop music that grew into prominence in the 1980’s and quickly faded afterwards in the 1990’s. A loosely defined genre of Japanese pop that can...
Unveiling the Enigma: A Deep Dive into the Citypop Aesthetic
Jul 6, 2023 · Get ready for an exciting journey into the wondrous world of Citypop Aesthetic – an engrossing trend that combines both music genre and art form that first blossomed in Japan during the glittering decades of the 1970s 1980s era.