Living Colors on StageA Japanese live painter, Matsumoto, shares his time and emotions with a Tokyo audience under the spotlightTokyo, Japan By Yas Mamemachi
He instinctively moved his paint brushes over the canvas, while something in his aesthetic mind was stimulated by the different types of music selected by DJ-painter Ken-G. He started the show by painting multiple colors on the canvas. Red, bruise blue, yellow, sky blue, and white danced on their floor, called canvas, choreographed by his brushwork, making the base of the artwork on the canvas. The base was scrubbed with a towel to grade the colors, keeping it not too bright, since it was illuminated by neon lights from under the paint at the very end of the show. What looked like waves of butterflies (or birds) were drowned on the layers of the colors. Finally, the neon lights were turned on, and the butterflies (or the birds) came out of the hazy canvas and vanished in applause.
Matsumoto discussed the framework of the show with Ken-G prior to the event. He did not even know what kind of music the DJ would choose. However, he said he is excited to be on stage to paint in front of many people, though he is not a live painting artist, because “live painting gives me a rare chance to share the process of my artwork with an audience and to exchange energy with them.” |
n the middle of the night early in summer, Masahito Matsumoto took 30 minutes to draw what he felt on canvas. The canvas was set up on a small dance floor in the corner of a Tokyo bar. Welcome to his live painting show, Time and Emotion.
