Anyone speak Japanese or recognise this artist's name

[robbocop33]

And please don't tell me it says 'Made in Taiwan' or something else as devastatingly humurous.
But,just wondering if anyone knows what this signature says,im thinking it's Japanese writing,but i maybe wrong,here's the best pic i can take.Thanks!

[SCEtoAUX]

Made in China

[EVO575]

'Painted on real wallpaper'

[hamish88]

That's Chinese and roughly translated the name would be Angelo

[robbocop33]

hamish88 said:

That's Chinese and roughly translated the name would be Angelo

Reason i thought Japanese was i just related paintings more with Japanese,China more with sculptures,carvings.
Here's the full monstrosity.

[bristolbaron]

hamish88 said:

That's Chinese and roughly translated the name would be Angelo

First name Michael?

[Wacky Racer]

I think it's rather good.

[hamish88]

More like someone walked into their local Chinese takeaway and ask " can you translate my name please " 😂

[robbocop33]

Wacky Racer said:

I think it's rather good.

I bought it for my misses at an art auction,it's quite large and looks quite impressive in real life i suppose,changes with different lighting,but not something i normally would have bought.
So in typical pistonheads fashion,it's a Michael Angelo,oh dear....

Edited by robbocop33 on Sunday 5th April 22:42

[eltawater]

Looks like chinese to me.

First character looks like: An



https://www.purpleculture.net/dictionary-details/?...

Second character looks like: Qi



https://www.purpleculture.net/dictionary-details/?...

I can't tell what the third character is unfortunately from the photo, the signature style makes it impossible to decipher.



So you're looking for someone whose Surname is An or something similar. Their given name (assuming the middle character is the generational name) will be Qi-Something.

So in english form, Mr/Ms Qi-Something An
In chinese form it's "An Qi-Something", with their given name being "Qi-Something".

If I can get a better photo of the last character I can ask my parents and see if they can decipher it.

Hope that helps.

[micky g]

I thought most characters are used in both Chinese and Japanese, obviously expressed as different words.

[wisbech]

Correct - Japanese uses a mix of chinese characters (kanji) and their own alphabet (two of them..., hiragana and katakana) for writing.

Often for names you will see alphabet written under the characters to show how to pronounce. For example the character for "mountain" is sometimes pronounced 'yama' and sometimes "san/ shan"

However, the name looks more Chinese than Japanese. That isn't a surname in Japan AFAIK

[micky g]

wisbech said:

Correct - Japanese uses a mix of chinese characters (kanji) and their own alphabet (two of them..., hiragana and katakana) for writing.

Often for names you will see alphabet written under the characters to show how to pronounce. For example the character for "mountain" is sometimes pronounced 'yama' and sometimes "san/ shan"

However, the name looks more Chinese than Japanese. That isn't a surname in Japan AFAIK

Thank you for the explanation.

[justice.]

My Chinese is a little suspect.. but from what I can see it looks like:

1. An 安
2. Qi 其
3. Luo 罗

Probably won't show the above unless you have simplified Chinese on your computer, see image below.


This could be the artists' actual Chinese name, though I'm doubtful as I think they've put what I believe to be their family name (罗/Luo/Law) last on the painting. I suspect it is the artists' phonetic spelling of "Angelo" An-Qi-Luo as mentioned above.

[easytiger123]

bristolbaron said:

hamish88 said:

That's Chinese and roughly translated the name would be Angelo

First name Michael?