THE HAKONE GLASS FOREST IS EVERYTHING IT'S CRACKED UP TO BE
In the Middle Ages, before the dawn of science, alchemists tried to find ways to make gold. Of course their efforts were futile, but where ...
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Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts
Rembrandt: A Subtle Artist Who Glows in the Dark
Minerva in Her Study, 1635 Recently, thanks to the power cuts caused by the damage to the Fukushima nuclear reactors, many of us ha...
Collection: "Masks" by Anonymous
Although I sometimes pay for it, most of the art that I collect I actually get for free. As I'm a famous art writer, artists give m...
The Esoteric Influence of Taro Okamoto
Alien named PAIRA, 1956 Visiting the Taro Okamoto Museum of Art is always a fascinating experience. Located in Kawasaki's heavily...
Greek Sculpture: The Naked and the Divine
How many of the artworks being made today will stand the test of time and still be appreciated more than 2,000 years in the future — as...
Undressing the Myth Behind Goya
What courage! On first appraisal, it might seem that the organizers have brought the wrong Maja to Japan for the exhibition "Go...
American Impressionists: Following Monet to the Country
Self Portait (1896), F.W. MacMonnies The charm of Impressionism was that it allowed a great deal of artistic freedom and expressivenes...
Chronicle of Showa Era Erotic Gegika
Artwork by Tsutsumi Tsutsumu Back in the 1970s, Japan had something of a porn boom. Strict censorship meant that things like full fro...
William Blake: Poetry and Old Testament visions make a perfect holiday exhibition
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind (1896) William Blake (1757–1827) combined the advantages of the outsider artist with those...
Maurice Denis: Flattening the art world with gentle avant-gardism
La Toilette de l'enfant, 1899 The avant-garde probably never looked as moderate and conservative as it did in 1888, when a group of you...
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: A major Impressionist is thrown into sharp focus at the NACT
Dance at Bougival, 1883 "Suteki (beautiful)!" the young mother cries, dangling her one-year-old infant in front of Renoir...
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