CNN —In the land of Hello Kitty, kawaii (“cute”) culture and the Neo-Pop art of 1990s Japan, Tetsuya Ishida was an outlier.
An untitled 2004 acrylic and oil painting by late Japanese artist Tetsuya Ishida from the Gagosian retrospective "My Anxious Self."
Ishida, who had gone to art school, worked part-time at a print shop and as a night security guard.
Many of the 200 or so paintings Ishida completed in his lifetime portray the gloom of becoming a cog in the economic machine.
Another painting entitled "Gripe," painted by Ishidia in 1996, portrays a Japanese salaryman with lobster claws for hands.
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