东方梦境

东方梦境

从首次获星云奖到90年期间，天野喜孝先后发行了《魔天》、《幻梦宫》、《IMAGINE》、《飞天》四本画集，并在1989年于日本有乐町举办了首次个展“飞天”。从90年起，平均每年都有2本以上的天野喜孝画集出版物发行。天野也相继在巴黎、纽约成立工作室，并于日本与全球各地举办艺术个展。

在为国内外小说家创作封面和插画期间，天野喜孝尝试开创各种不同风格，致力学习西洋古典与近现代艺术，不断加深对其文化的理解，将其融入作品的骨血之中。天野深受包括达芬奇、阿尔丰斯·慕夏、古斯塔夫·莫罗等的启迪；在画派上也受到拉斐尔前派、法国象徵主义、新艺术运动、维也纳分离派、表现主义、后印象派、日本浮世绘等的影响。

天野喜孝的学习历程广纳传统文化、动漫、科幻、游戏与艺术、文学、戏剧等多种养分，融会贯通，创造出家喻户晓的“天野流”艺术风格。如同艺评家陆蓉之所述：“天野喜孝作品中风格独特的美女与英雄，常常是跨文化的角色。这些怪异的、充满幻想力的角色，引发一种真实与虚拟交错的狂喜。天野喜孝作品中的动漫角色，看起来不管是像外星人或者史前人类，都创造出一种仅存在于想像世界的真实……睁着夸张的大眼看着人们，仿佛他们是从另一个世界凝视着人群”。

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Oriental Dream Scene

Since first winning of the Seiun Award to the 1990s, Yoshitaka Amano has published four illustrations collections. In 1989, he launched his solo exhibition Hiten in Japan. Since 1990, he published at least two personal collections every year. He established studios in Paris and New York, and launched exhibitions in Japan and across the world.

When creating illustrations and covers for novelists, he tries different styles by learning from classic western and modern arts. He deepens his understanding about culture, and this deepened appreciation is embedded into his works. He finds inspiration from Da Vinci, Alphonse Mucha, Gustave Moreau, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the French symbolism, Art Nouveau, Vienna Secession, Expressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Yamato-e.

His learnings cover traditional culture, manga, science fiction, games, arts, literature, and dramas. He connects everything together to present his own style. Respected art curator and critic Victoria Yung-Chih Lu wrote, “Yoshitaka Amano’s heroes and heroines are created in a unique, cross-cultural style. His weird, fanciful characters are balancing at the border of reality and fantasy, giving the viewers a peculiar visual experience. Amano’s vivid characters (some of which look like aliens, some like prehistoric humans) created a sense of reality which only exist in the world of imagination. They look at us with their exaggerated eyes, as if while standing in another world staring at ours.”