Life Imitating Art / Pelican Man - Peter Doig & Japan

Peter Doig - Untitled (Jungle Painting), 2007,
oil on linen, 275x200cm

For over 20 years, the now 76 year old Masafumi Nagasaki spends his pensioner days
as single inhabitant on the Japanese island Sotobanari. Photo: Reuters, via spiegel.de.
Read the full article and see video here (in german).

Peter Doig - Pelican, 2004, oil on canvas, 275x200cm

Peter Doig - Pelican (Stag),2003, oil on canvas, 276x200cm

Peter Doig - Untitled, Pelican, 2004, colour aquatint
with etching -www.artzizzle.com

Peter Doig - Pelican, 2003. Charcoal and oil on paper,
58.4 x 38.1 cm - via www.moma.org

Peter Doig - Pelican (Night),2004, oil on canvas,
35.5x25.5cm - via artnews.org

Masafumi Nagasaki on the beach of the Japanese island Sotobanari. Here, being naked feels right, Nagasaki sees it "as a kind of uniform".  Wearing clothes he would feel "completely out of place". Photo Reuters.

photo Reuters via spiegel.de

Peter Doig - Pelican Man, 2003. Oil and charcoal on paper, 135.9 x 109.2 cm -
via www.moma.org

Peter Doig - Pelican, 2002, ink on paper

"One cannot defeat nature, so one has to obey completely."
Photo Reuters via spiegel.de

Please click here for another Juxtaposition series of paintings of Peter Doig juxtaposed with images of the 2011 Japanese tsunami, that I posted on my other blog mfk/fragmentedprocess.