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Hiroshi Nagai: Japan's Sun-Drenched Americana
Hiroshi Nagai developed an oeuvre of Americana pop style paintings that served as a backdrop to the Japanese City Pop movement of the late 70s and 80s
Adapting the deep blue skies, relaxed ocean side settings and sleepy nighttime cityscapes from previous pop artists, Nagai developed his own style throughout the late 1970s. These styles, similar to elevator music in many instances, were iconic of the post war economic boom in the USA and thus translated naturally to the thriving economy of 1980’s Japan. Still producing works today, Nagai’s prints have more recently been coopted by the likes of the vaporwave movement - modern scenes that base themselves on a nostalgic aesthetic and draw heavily from Japan’s bygone bubble era.
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