Artists who like to give a middle finger in front of the camera and don't shy away from talking about sex on any occasion.
Maybe some people are not familiar with this, has been hot to 74-year-old empty Mountain Base, but must know his sexy girlfriend.
Kajime Sorayama
As a Japanese "master of mood", he created a unique sexy female robot that fascinated the world.
Since the 1970s, Kōyamaji's series of works on the theme of mechanical hime has set off a mechanical metal frenzy and has become one of the synonyms of Japan's new machine aesthetics.
His mechanical Ji is exquisite and beautiful, not only the skin is delicate and smooth, exuding a metallic luster, but also a near-perfect body proportion, it can be said that each part impacts the public senses and social taboos.
It is precisely because some of the masterpieces are too large in scale, and Kongshanji is often controversial and will be labeled as an "xx" artist by ruthless netizens.
Fortunately, the empty mountain basic people are real enough to dare to think and dare to do, he even confessed,
"There are two kinds of people in this world. One is the person who hides his lust, and the person who is the opposite of him. Artists as straightforward and upright as I am are of the latter category. If there is no interest in SxX, we humans cannot survive. ”
Indeed, before knowing empty mountain base, no one could have imagined that robots could be so sexy~
The sexy girlfriend of a 74-year-old Japanese mood master
Kuyama ki's most famous work is Mechanical Ji, the founder of mechanical sexiness, which infuses lust into the metal body and reverses the stereotype of robots in the world.
Sexy Robot
The smooth and smooth body lines, the mysterious seduction under the metal shell, and the body posture of a certain suggestive meaning, each design is designed to maximize the stimulation of the viewer's senses.
This wonderful creation comes from his extremely talented painting ability and rich imagination.
Empty Yamaji Studio
Kuyama ki has been interested in shiny things since childhood, so his works, whether human or mechanical, have fascinating refracted light and transparency.
Many people think that Kuyamaji's works are full of futuristic feelings, but he himself said that all creation is just his own preference and imagination for female beauty.
He does not portray Mechanic Ji as a robot, but as a "woman".
Empty mountain base hand-painted metallic texture
At that time, mechanical Hime was popular in Japan, and then quickly became popular all over the world, and to this day it is still the object of joint brand competition by major brands.
Recently, fashion accessories brand CASETiFY and Kongshanji have created a "sci-fi relief" mobile phone case, look at this value, I am afraid that I will empty the wallets of fans again.
Bringing Kuyamaji's famous mechanical girl, mechanical dinosaur and new mechanical shark to the silver mirror phone case, the metal futurism comes to mind.
In the impression, every joint name of The Empty Mountain Base will cause great repercussions, and even the fashion circle is crazy about it.
In 2018, at the Dior Show in Tokyo, a 12-meter-high Sexy Robot installation stood in the center of the venue, which stunned everyone.
French design master Thierry Mugler once used the painting of KongShanji as inspiration to create a series of clothing, which was published on the cover of a well-known magazine.
Partnering with KAWS to launch trendy toys to create the pinnacle of toy collections that present a distinct futuristic robotic aesthetic.
He has also helped many well-known singers or groups design album covers.
Including rock group Smith spaceship's 2001 "Just Push Play", record label 88rising in the album "Head In The Clouds II" cover, peripheral product design applied many mechanical elements.
In short, it is difficult to engage in joint names with empty mountain bases and not to be hot.
Mizuno x Empty Mountain Base
Disgusted "bad students"
Kuyama ki was born in Japan in 1947. As a student, he showed an astonishing artistic flair and in high school he was fascinated by collecting Playboy albums.
Inspired by literary works and interested in Greek, he entered Shikoku Gakuin University in 1965. However, at that time, he did not choose his favorite department, and only reluctantly chose to read English.
In order to pass the time after class, he founded a magazine called Pink Journal in his sophomore year, but he did not expect that this was so disgusted by his teachers and classmates that he had no intention of learning.
It may really be fate's arrangement.
By chance, when Kuyama Ki was flipping through the magazine "Art Handbook", he saw the admissions information of The Tokyo Chuo Art School, and the note-free admission plan instantly ignited Kuyama Ki.
In 1967, he officially entered the Academy of Fine Arts and embarked on the road of art.
After graduating from university in 1969, he successfully entered an advertising agency in Tokyo as an illustrator. It was only after a long working time that he was tired of aggressive and unreasonable customers, and soon he decided to quit again.
He said, "I just want to work for myself." ”
In 1972, he became a freelance illustrator.
Due to the accumulation of a large fan base in the circle in the past few years, after resigning, he began to contribute to the famous American magazines "Playboy" and "Loft Magazine" to contribute to the illustration.
Playboy magazine
The more you paint, the more popular it becomes, and naturally there will be a steady stream of business coming to you.
In 1977, the science fiction film "Star Wars Quadrilogy: Dawning Dawn" was released, and the world fell into the humanoid mechanical trend. The C-3PO in the play was a robot that was highly talked about at the time.
In an advertising collaboration between Kushanji and Suntory Japan's beverage company, Suntory wanted Kushanji to use C-3PO as a model for advertising posters, but Kushanji proposed to try something different.
C-3PO
In 1978, the 31-year-old Kuyama Ki combined the historical masterpiece "Metropolis" to create the first mechanical painting "Sexy Robot" based on the image of maria, a female robot in the play.
1927 Metropolis
In 1983, Kuyamaji integrated the previous works of "Mechanical Ji" and published the "Sexy Robot" album that aroused great social repercussions.
Since then, many classic works have been produced successively.
1993 Art Book The Gynoids
Mechanical swordfish painting plate acrylic
In addition to the spray paintings, many of Kōsanji's works are hand-painted, using acrylic paint to bring the stiff texture of the robot to life.
Khlong Shan Ji once revealed that the most difficult part of drawing a machine carcass was how the water droplets around him should flow when they put on the swimsuit for the mechanical Ji, and what kind of depression should be generated at the seam between the swimsuit strap and the steel plate...
Ordinary people simply can't seem to imagine how difficult it is for such works of art to take shape in The Empty Mountain's mind.
"Yes, I flatter money"
Over the years, Kushanji has received too many honors, and is almost a regular visitor to the collections of major art museums.
In 1999, Kuyama Ki won the Best Design Award from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Media Art Festival Award from the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan for his AIBO robot dog designed for Sony.
In 2001, the first generation of "AIBO" was collected by the Smithsonian Institution and the MoMA in New York.
Mechanical Animal Series Photo/Shanghai Trend Information
Since 1989, he has held solo exhibitions on The Empty Mountain Base for almost consecutive years. The most recent "Metropolis" is at the Hao Art Museum in Shanghai and is currently on display.
Interested friends can go to the punch card.
Photo: Shanghai trend intelligence
In fact, the more I learned about Empty Mountain, the more interesting I found him.
After more than 40 years of creation, in an interview, KushanJi was asked what was supporting him.
Kuyamaji replied, "It's money." ”
"Culture is not very advanced, culture is just a parasite, and when everything goes well, people will pretend that it is exquisite, and everyone is just flattering power and money." 」
Haha it seems that he not only does not shy away from talking about xing, but also does not hide his love for money.
His honesty, frankness and honesty, just like his work.
"I don't understand why I don't want to be a person directly?" People who can't be calm always have strange ideas, and even more and more distorted. It's as if the Spring Palace Diagram has only been gradually accepted in the last two hundred years, and at first the people who dared to admit that they liked were regarded as 'aliens', and now it seems that everyone is like me. ”
- Empty Mountain Base
Image source: sorayama.jp, Hao Art Museum Guanwei, NANZUKA Gallery
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