Famous Paintings Reimagined Through the Lens of Moe!

| Culture | Posted by Kai Okudara on May.20.2016

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Contemporary Japanese illustrators step into the world of some of the most famous painters in history with “Eshi de Irodoru Sekai no Meiga” (The World of Famous Masterpieces Coloured by Illustrators), a book to be released on May 25, 2016.

: Girl with a Pearl Earring (original by Johannes Vermeer)

: Sunflowers (original by Vincent Van Gogh)

: Divan Japonais (original by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec)

: Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son (original by Claude Monet)

The book is 122 B5-sized (182mm x 257mm) pages bursting with color and featuring illustrators like Shiro (Yama no Susume), Kazuharukina, and Rin Horuma among the 43 contributors reimagining works such as Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl Earring”, Munch’s “The Scream”, and Tawaraya Sotatsu’s “Fujin Raijin-zu”.

: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (original by Édouard Manet)

: The Snake Charmer (original by Henri Rousseau)

Not simply a picture book, there are charts and discussion/comparison of the artists from both time periods. A limited number of special postcards will be given to those who purchase the book in-store as well.

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