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Dec 1, 2017 · After decades of trying, Kazuhiro Tsuji escaped Hollywood. Then Gary Oldman called on the legendary makeup artist for ‘Darkest Hour.’
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- Dick Smith
- Abraham Lincoln
- Andy Warhol
- Salvador Dali
- Frida Kahlo
- Mark Ryden
- Robert Crumb
Special effects makeup artist who won an Oscar for his work on Amadeus “Dick was like a father figure to me. I first met him at 17 and was struck by his selflessness. I didn’t get on with my parents, and had never met an adult like him. He advised and encouraged me without asking for anything. I couldn’t properly repay that kindness, but to say tha...
America’s 16th president who issued the Emancipation Proclamation and delivered the iconic Gettysburg Address “I first saw Dick’s work in a magazine called Fangoria. He was applying makeup to Hal Holbrook for the TV series Lincoln. I tried to create a similar look on myself and sent the results to Dick [after finding his postal address in the same ...
A leading figure in the pop art movement who coined the phrase “15 minutes of fame” “I was looking for the next subject and happened to stumble across a documentary about Andy Warhol. To be honest, I’d never previously been interested in his work, but watching the show I was inspired by his achievements. It made me think that anything was possible,...
A Spanish surrealist painter renowned for his explorations of subconscious imagery “I’ve always loved Salvador Dali’s work, especially ‘Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War).’ I did his sculpture in 2014 and you can see how I borrowed from that painting for this project. It was the year Dick passed away so at the time I was...
An influential self-portrait artist and feminist icon who explored questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, and race “I wanted to sculpt a female and the idea of Frida came to me. She was someone I have massive respect for, not only because of the amazing paintings, but also her intelligence and passion. I wish I could live my life the way s...
Dubbed “the godfather of pop surrealism,” he is the best-known artist to emerge from the underground visual art movement known as Lowbrow “He’s an incredibly talented individual and I was particularly impressed with his set and costume designs for the American Ballet Theater production Whipped Cream. Having said that, I was initially hesitant with ...
A distinctive and satirical cartoonist who’s said to be obsessed with large rear ends “This was a commissioned piece. I’d previously seen a documentary about Robert Crumb and though I didn’t care much for the cartoons, I respected his portraits which looked fantastic. Whenever I do a sculpture I need to feel some kind of empathy with the subject, a...
After two Academy Award nominations for his work doing makeup and hairstyling on the films "Click" (2006) and "Norbit" (2007), Kazuhiro Tsuji finally got his hands on an Oscar to call his own at...
Mar 5, 2018 · Tsuji’s greatest achievement was creating not a rubber mask, but a nearly invisible layer of makeup and prosthetics – the most present, yet inconspicuous element on screen – that helped ...
Mar 13, 2017 · It took a call from Gary Oldman to persuade him to come back to Hollywood to work on his latest project, 2017’s ‘Darkest Hour‘, where a barely recognisable Oldman plays Winston Churchill, a guise carefully crafted by Tsuji.
Jan 19, 2018 · Japanese artist Kazuhiro Tsuji is the man responsible for both Eddie Murphy’s jiggling ghoul wife and Oldman’s incredible Darkest Hour transformation, the latter finally granting Tsuji levels...
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Mar 5, 2018 · It’s an honor that very easily could have eluded him: In 2011, Tsuji quit the film industry, turning instead to art and dedicating himself to making larger-than-life, hyperrealistic sculptures of famous artists and other notable figures. Then Gary Oldman came calling.
