Noburu Kitawaki

Kitawaki Noboru (Japanese: 北脇昇; June 4, 1901 – December 18, 1951) was a Japanese painter and writer. He was born in the city of Nagoya, but spent most of his life in Kyoto. Kitawaki worked mainly in the style of Japanese surrealism, automatism, proletarian art, and later Constructivism in the late 1930s. Rather than dreams and psychoanalysis that distinctly marks European surrealism, the Japanese surrealism that Noboru showed in his work focused on the pairing of opposites: “nature and the supernatural, reality and hyper-reality”.