A Shadow Passes 影すぎる

With a violence of a tornado, something is speeding past. It enters from top right, flows to the left half of the picture, then bursts out in all directions with great energy. Against the background of pale blue, blue, and white, vigorous brushstrokes in monochrome run wildly, reminding us of the way ominous clouds are depicted in Eastern ink painting. Yasukazu Tabuchi moved to Paris soon after the war, and still lives and works there. He chose to plunge himself into the Western world to shed off the trend, ubiquitous in Japan, to emulate the West, and to create art as an independent individual. Through his association with the members of the "COBRA" and discovery of traditional Viking patterns, he finally arrived at an Eastern and Buddhistic approach of "natural creation." At the basis of this approach is in a "Pantheistic view" of natural phenomena, which recognizes their variegation but at the same time sees them as all interrelated and connected. For Tabuchi, the act of painting was to invoke the images of this Pantheistic nature from the depth of human subconscious where they are buried and forgotten. The something that rushes past the picture is an "apparition of those that ever changes."rn