Adoremus Bulletin interviews Daniel Mitsui

Daniel Mitsui is an artist on the move—although for a while it felt like he was stuck between things, a situation less than ideal for a Catholic artist who depends on the permanent and eternal to make his living.

Last May, when Mitsui spoke with Adoremus, his living room was full of moving boxes stacked against the wall. Apologetic for the clutter, Mitsui’s wife Michelle explained that they had never quite moved in because they were already preparing to move out. With their four children, the Mitsuis were renting a two-story house tucked behind downtown Des Plaines, IL. From this temporary in-between place, the Mitsuis were hoping to find more permanent digs outside Chicago’s suburbs.

continue at Adoremus

Catholic Gent interviews artist Daniel Mitsui

[Mitsui:] The Catholic tradition of religious art has a real and permanent content, just like the liturgical tradition and the theological tradition. While artistic tradition perhaps does not have so exalted a place in our religion as these, it corroborates them and operates with the same principles. Like these, it cannot be altogether remade or replaced without ruinous effect. Modern Catholics often have a confused notion of tradition, thinking of it in terms of what changes rather than what endures.

also

The dream of St. Joseph

By blood, I am half Japanese; however, my cultural connection to Japan is not strong. My Japanese ancestors came to the United States about a century ago. My paternal grandparents and their siblings were all born in America; my father and his siblings never learned to speak Japanese.

My interest in Japanese art did not come through my family, but through my patrons. I received a commission from a priest whose religious order had done missionary work in Japan; he asked me to draw Saint Michael in the style of an ukiyo-e woodblock print. I had never done anything like this, had never thought to do anything like this. But I accepted the commission and I liked the result; so did my other patrons, who requested more and more of these transpositions of medieval iconography into the style of Japanese art.

check out the full interview at The Catholic Gentleman

Probably my favorite Mitsui is The Tree of Life and Death.

Artist Daniel Mitsui is offering a 30-40% off for original drawings

via New Liturgical Movement

Artist Daniel Mitsui is offering a special sale on his work to raise funds for an upcoming move to a new home.

Several of his original drawings are on sale for prices reduced by 30 to 40 percent, including a Chi-Rho Monogram in the style of the early mediaeval Northumbro-Irish art, an Annunciation based on 14th century French manuscripts, a black and white Crucifixion, and a newly-completed image of Christ in Majesty.

Signed giclée prints of Mitsui's drawings are, as part of the sale, being offered four for the price of three. The available prints include a series of five illustrations done on commission for the Vatican's Vox Clara Committee (Crucifixion, Last Supper, Presentation, Pentecost, and Christ the High Priest), and a new depiction of the Adoration of the Magi.

Visit Mitsui's most recent newsletter for details, prices and the full list of available drawings and prints. Here are a few of the original works he is offering for sale.

I believe Mitsui is based out of the Chicago area.

HT ED

Maid of Orleans, ora pro nobis!

Daniel Mitsui

Just fantastic!