GORO ENDOW ART JOURNAL

  Hello everyone. This is Goro. It's a bit long since the last update. I wish I could write and post an article on here every day. It seems I still can't get the knack of it. To make things even more complicated, writing it in English, which I'm not native in, is making it more difficult. Today I would like to write about my first ever prize-winning work 'Blue Ennui' (Touch Of Blue Expo).  I still feel it was as if a recent event, it's already three years gone since I was awarded. Calling up my memories then, since an artist can submit as many artworks as he/she wants, I hurriedly painted two portraits (including Blue Ennui), two abstracts and one other piece then submitted them all together, at once. I finished painting Blue Ennui approx. 40 minutes, as far as I remember. We applicants were required to include blue color(s) in our work. I remember I had used gouache blue paints in all of my works.  This was the story then. However, to surprise you, I gave up pa...

Introducing myself with 17 artworks chosen from whole my 20 painter years so far. I myself would like to look back on these and those days. HVOYA (2007) Commemorated first sold original piece in my art career. You'll never know how much I was over the moon when it's sold in 2008. VALERIE (2008) I used to experiment with oils in early years like this but have long been away from it these days. Wonder when I will resume it. MABUINEECHAN SEDUCER (2009) Prints available FABIENNE7 (2010) My art entered onto a new stage when I have painted this one. A very important piece. Prints available HORIZON (2011) I've started pursuing spiritual themes with my art since when I made this one.  The blue background is beautiful. BLUE PERIOD (2012) First 5 years of my painter life was when I was living in Tokyo. Then I moved back to my hometown Miyagi in 2012. FIRST SUNRISE (2013) CAFE (2014) To me, it seems acrylic goes with my art style most, maybe than in oils. ECLECTICA (2017) I still love...

Today I would like to roughly enumerate of painters and draftsmen I respect.  My No.1 painter is Francis Bacon. My No.1 draftsman is Horst Janssen. I've written about my encounter with Bacon in the previous article. My encounter with Janssen was through an artbook too. It was a Japanese publication titled as 'Gakyoujin Horst Janssen' and I used to look so thoroughly his works featured on that book and was hugely influenced by them (to me that is a nostalgic memory). To name other artists,  I love Pablo Picasso up to a point. I like his Rose Period oils and drawings.  I see him as my role model prolific artist.  I also like Willem de Kooning's 1940s & 1950s female portraits very much.  But I don't have much interest in his pure abstraction works, throughout his career.  I really love Edvard Munch. I prefer his prints to his oil paintings. I don't have many favorite Japanese artists but, am attached to Leonard Foujita's life and work.  I especially l...

I enjoyed drawing since quite an early age. In fact, I was good at it and was always regarded as the best pupil artist by teachers and classmates from the first year of elementary school and the last year of high school. However, I lost my interest in art once I had set my future dream to be a rock star like Keith Richards as I was in junior high school and then, until around at age 30, my whole life was dedicated to music. That was why I rarely painted in my teens and twenties. Before I started thinking of becoming a painter by myself, I had received a set of fateful realizations in my life for several years in a row. The first one was a major influence from the work of Francis Bacon, whom I first knew via an artbook I happened to purchase on my trip oversea. Seeing Bacon's work, I suddenly got a hunch that I might be able to create something cool in painting which is no less great than the art of music. That was a very important inspiration to me.  Next, I was working at a galler...

Hello everyone. How do you do? My name is Goro Endow, an artist (painter and draftsman), born in Nara, grew up and currently based in Miyagi, Japan. Besides for networking and promotion, I've launched this new blog to train my English, which is the second language to me. You can have a browse through my painting and drawing work on the linked websites and social media. I'm not sure how often I can update this new blog, though, I hope I could be as prolific as possible in the course of time. It's all for the first time greetings. See you next time.