How Tomokazu Matsuyama Appropriates Images to Create Fine Art

Tomokazu Matsuyama is a Japanese contemporary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NYC. Matsuyama is widely-known for appropriating traditional Japanese icons, street art motifs, and American pop culture imagery in his paintings. With these various references, he intends to trigger conversations about self-identity, diversity, and the impact of globalization. "I want to portray the culture that we live in and to do that, for me, is to make a mashup of what makes our time very unique," he said...