LEONARD FOUJITA: BIG IN FRANCE
Dream of the Opera House It wasn’t for nothing that the Ecole de Paris was called a school. In the early decades of the 20th century ...
SEXING THE HARA: KISHIN SHINOYAMA
Despite all its other functions, nudity has an almost mystical power to enchant and create an ethereal mood. This is especially ap...
A BEADY EYE ON AFRICAN ART
There is an idea common today that almost anything can be ‘art.’ This probably has something to do with a certain Frenchman who exhibit...
UNSOLICITED ART (3): MITSUHIRO OKAMOTO
Defacing classical art has long been a staple of "modern" art, which obviously has a strong anti-Western animus, which some th...
AMERICA, BUT (SADLY) NOT AS WE KNOW IT
"Power" by Edward Bruce On paper "To See as Artists See: American Art from the Phillips Collection" must have seem...
OUTER TURMOIL: HORST JANSSEN'S ART THERAPY
One of the quickest ways to understand an artist is to look at his self portraits. Van Gogh’s reveal his intensity and passion while ...
French Masters from the Pushkin
Vuillard's Interior, 1904 Getting High on a New Supply It’s no secret what the Japanese art public really like – soft, flowery...
THE AESTHETIC MOVEMENT: EXHAUSTING BEAUTY
Midsummer by Albert Moore, 1887 The idea that beauty can be made to serve some other purpose — selling some product or idea for exampl...
DEGAS: DE-IDEALIZING THE NUDE
After the Bath—Woman Drying Herself, 1896, and the photo that it is based on. When you have an exhibition of an artist as famous a...
2000 YEARS OF LIGHT AND COLOUR
Emile Galle With the sweltering heat of Summer now upon us, you could do worse than escape into the cooled confines of the Suntory Mu...
KAII HIGASHIYAMA: A HAZY SHADE OF EGO
Sound of Waves (1975) One of the words most often associated with the art of Kaii Higashiyama is 'spiritual.' But what exactly...
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