Tadaomi Kawasaki creates paintings that fuse the instantly recognizable motifs of Pop Art with the intricate brushwork of oil painting. Dubbed “spontaneous realism”, his style draws from several centuries of painting techniques yet remains defiantly contemporary in its concept and execution. The artist counts Andy Warhol’s Pop Art portraits and Vincent van Gogh’s impressionist brushstrokes among his greatest influences.Kawasaki draws on and condenses four centuries of painting technique into bold, cohesive statements of intent, depicting pop culture greats with a kaleidoscope of