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...
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