HITOMI UCHIKURA: MIRRORING THE FUNDAMENTAL LIFE FORCE
One of Uchikura's "Shining Cells" Nothing is more elemental or common than light. Although taken for granted, it is the li...
Showing posts with label 2001. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2001. Show all posts
THE RAW VISION OF AKIRA KUROSAWA
The Fall of the Third Castle - A Hedgehog (Kagemusha) Film director Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) is perhaps more famous outside Japan than any...
TARO OKAMOTO: REVISITING HIS ANCESTOR'S ART
Face Taro Okamoto (1911-96) is perhaps Japan’s most famous post-war artist. With his trademark artistic style, his eccentric, media-fr...
Breaking the Da Vinci Code of Italian Inventiveness
This year, thanks to the cultural promotion campaign "Italy in Japan 2001," we have had ample opportunity to admire Ital...
Takanori Oguiss: the Japanese Utrillo
When I first saw the oil paintings of Paris by the Japanese artist, Takanori Oguiss (1901-1986), I was strangely reminded of the neutron...
Shinsui Ito: An Eye for the Ladies
Yubi 1922 Shinsui Ito (1898-1972) was a central figure during Japan's artistic identity crisis in the 20th century. As wave after...
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George Segal: Standing Out from the Crowd
Art does not exist in a neat little bubble. Contemporary events, like the devastating terrorist attack on America, effect the way we ...
Rules are Made to be Broken: Gervex, Renoir, Cezanne & Picasso
Woman Seated in an Armchair, 1923 Nowadays an artist has complete freedom to paint, carve, construct, install, or simply do whateve...
Ryusei Kishida: Innovation and Exploration
Kishida’s short but brilliant career When Japan opened up to the West after the Meiji Revolution, it had a lot of catching up to d...
Merzbacher Collection: Unleashing the Power of Colour
The Beak of the Eagle, La Ciotat (1907) The keynote of the exhibition at the Yasuda Kasai Museum [ ＊now renamed the Sompo Japan Muse...
Odilon Redon: from Darkness into Light
Pegasus and the Muse Odilon Redon (1840-1916) is one of the most intriguing painters of the turn of the 20th century. He is also one...
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