BRUEGHEL IN BLACK AND WHITE

BRUEGHEL IN BLACK AND WHITE

Just for the record, it wasn’t a gang of Gauloises-smoking, coffee-swigging Frenchmen in 1920s Paris who invented surrealism. Nor was it Man...
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TAKANORI KINOSHITA & JAPAN'S POST-WAR POSE

TAKANORI KINOSHITA & JAPAN'S POST-WAR POSE

Seated Ballerina in Red Tutu (undated) The history of modern Japanese art has a hierarchy of narratives. As in the West, the top narrative i...
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THE COOL NIHONGA OF KANZAN SHIMOMURA

THE COOL NIHONGA OF KANZAN SHIMOMURA

Mona Lisa or "Avalokitesvara Bearing a Fish Basket” (c. 1927)? Art can sometimes play a balancing or compensatory role in society, givi...
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SHUT UP YOU PATRIARCHS, SOME FEMINIST ART IS TALKING

SHUT UP YOU PATRIARCHS, SOME FEMINIST ART IS TALKING

I don’t normally visit exhibitions in company, but this time I made an exception, and press-ganged a female acquaintance to join me. The rea...
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