In Japan, Issei Nishimura Paints the Blues
(WorldNews Japan)

There is a way to experience the bold, exuberant, psychologically intense work of the Japanese artist Issei Nishimura, not as a formalist trying to make sense of its unflappably expressionistic compositions, but rather from the standpoint of a music lover, tuning into, and surrendering to, their oddball rhythms. For Nishimura, who was a guitar player before turning to drawing and painting, makes art inspired by and steeped in the blues. ......