石田徹也 Tetsuya Ishida

Tetsuya Ishida's painting remind me the scene in Frida Kahlo's painting. (even more powerful...)

It has been a long period time that I haven't seen such amazing surrealistic paintings.
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Here some information about him:

Tetsuya Ishida was a a Japanese painter, born in June 1973 in Shizuoka Prefecture, who died in 2005 after being hit by a train. (Possibly Suicide) Tetsuya Ishida painted scenes of ordinary Japanese life, but with the protagonist (a self portrait) always trapped in a machine-like body, or treated as part of a production line.

On November 26, 2006, one of Ishida's paintings, "Untitled" 2001, sold at a Christie's Hong Kong (香港佳士德)- "Asian Contemporary Art" auction for 780,000HKD (over USD$100,000). The Christie's pre-auction estimate on the sale price of the painting was only 60,000-80,000HKD.

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Christie’s - Asian Contemporary Art 裡面這般他：「精神上的痛苦之所以悲慘，是因為它極為內隱，而不可捉摸。內心深處的不平靜，外人根本無從了解。心靈承受過度沉重的折磨，會使人喪失感覺能力，使人麻木不仁，伴隨而生的是強烈的空虛感。透過粗獷卻貼切的手法，石田徹也對這種折磨的描述是非個人化的。一個臉圓圓的男人不斷出現在石田的畫作中，被認為是藝術家的自畫像或自我投射。男主角被肢解的身軀和四肢已經毫無生命力，代表再也沒有感覺。觀眾也不難看出他充滿倦容的表情下富了多麼深沉的無奈。這個男人有時也會以其他形體出現，如一棟建築物一張椅子或一部機器等等，但所有隱喻都在表達被危困的感覺，以及失去行動力失去情緒失去自我認同與目標的憤恨。」