THE KANO SCHOOL IN EDO
Papa Birds and Monkeys by Naonobu Kano, 17th Century Credit: Idemitsu Museum of Art In the history of Japanese art, no family plays a bigger...
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Showing posts with label 2013. Show all posts
SASAE ONO: X-RAYED WOMAN
X-Rayed Woman (1949) Art can sometimes be surprisingly serious and po-faced, almost as if it were seen as a kind of substitute religion. ...
SCREAMING POSTERS OF THE SILENT TWENTIES
Author Unknown, "October," 1928 When the Communists seized control of Russia in late 1917, they found themselves in a diffic...
The Photographic Populism of Kayo Ume
With the advent of the digital camera, mobile phones and social networking, the world is now drowning in photographic imagery. This rai...
French Masterpieces from the Pushkin
Jupiter and Callisto, 1744 There are a lot of people who wish that art had simply stopped around 1911 or so. If it had, we would ha...
A Michelangelo Appetizer
Cleopatra This has been quite a year for fans of Renaissance art in Japan, with all three of its giants — Leonardo da Vinci, Raph...
El Greco: My Big, Skinny Greek Painting
The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception Tokyo seems crowded with Old Masters these days. Rubens is at the Bunkamura; Raphael is at th...
Odilon Redon: Art born from the disingenuous
Icarus, 1890 The most radical forces in art are not, as most people assume, genius, inspiration, or sheer talent, but instead a lack...
Drawing: Zen Number One
This artwork mixes subtle figurative elements, based on a sketch by Michelangelo, with abstract riffing that explores, without filling, ...
The Disconcerting Unity of Raphael
Madonna del Granduca Harmony can sometimes have a disconcerting side. This is one insight to emerge from the Raphael exhibition at th...
The Rich Restlessness of Rubens
The Resurrected Christ Triumphant (ca. 1616) The 17th-century Flemish baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens is a great historical painter...
Francis Bacon：The Restlessness of Human Existence
Study of George Dyer, 1969 In the 1989 Tim Burton film Batman , there is a famous scene where the Joker and his gang break into an ...
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