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HERE: JAPANESE ART ALIGHTS IN CAPE ESTATE. If you’re not traveling to Japan this summer, you can still immerse yourself in ...
Through stylised landscapes, scenes of everyday life and fantastical visions, Hokusai laid the foundations for a modern graphic touch still found in contemporary art far beyond the Nipponese shores.
A Japanese museum is hosting its first-ever exhibition dedicated to Vincent van Gogh, which explores the Dutch painter’s ...
Yuka Sakuma is a painter and illustrator based in Nagoya, Japan. Inspired by the nihonga school, her work has been exhibited ...
As well as being unique, the print is exemplary of Hiroshige’s subtle use of Prussian blue, which became commercially available in Japan in the 1820s. It was so favored by the artist that some ...
In a country like Japan, where the art instinct has expended itself upon a thousand useful objects, the art of Ukiyo-ye is not confined to color-prints; but these at any rate are the most viable ...
The Floating World,” a multimedia extravaganza inspired by the art of 18th- and 19th-century Japan, is on view through ...
French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20th century, when various world fairs brought Japanese art to Europe. Struggling to get his own ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There’s an element of voyeurism in the Japanese art of ukiyo-e. You get that feeling you’re glimpsing into another world, says ...
is to showcase the work of one of the 19th-century’s greatest Japanese artists, with over 100 prints (many from the American collector Alan Medaugh). Although Van Gogh plays a secondary role in ...