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...
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Showing posts with label 2010. Show all posts
Maurice Utrillo: Un peintre solitaire qui aimait Paris
Lapin Agile, 1914 Maurice Utrillo is one of those artists who seem to defy gravity. When you take a good, long look at his canvases a...
Harue Koga: The Art of Assimilating Western Styles
Fireworks The curse of early Western-style Japanese painters is the charge of derivativeness. Simply because they embraced foreign art...
The Blond Ambition of Tamara de Lempicka
Portrait of Ira P, 1930 I'm not sure what Lady Gaga — who arrives in Japan shortly — has in her art collection, but given time (a...
Alessandro Papetti: Dynamic Space
Milan, 2008 Since being featured at the Venice Biennale in 2003, Italian oil painter Alessandro Papetti has started to gather a cri...
A New Shrine to Real Excellence Opens in Chiba
Distant Memories, 2009, by Osamu Obi Have you heard of Sosuke Morimoto? No? Well, then, how about Ryo Shiotani or Osamu Obi? Nope? OK,...
Impressionist originality challenged by Italian 'patch' painters
Cristiano Banti's "Peasant Women in Conversation" (1861) Artistic reputations are very important to some countries. I...
Show Undermined by a Surfeit of Masters
Not Van Gogh's best. Save us from the well-rounded exhibition! For museum visitors in Japan, this is a constant danger; something I...
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