SHUNSO ISHIDA, RADICAL TRADITIONALIST
Fallen leaves (right panels), 1909-10 It’s no secret that the Japanese art world was going through major changes at the end of the 19th cent...
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Showing posts with label MoMAT. Show all posts
LEONARD FOUJITA: BIG IN FRANCE
Dream of the Opera House It wasn’t for nothing that the Ecole de Paris was called a school. In the early decades of the 20th century ...
KAII HIGASHIYAMA: A HAZY SHADE OF EGO
Sound of Waves (1975) One of the words most often associated with the art of Kaii Higashiyama is 'spiritual.' But what exactly...
FICTION FOR THE REAL
"Bathroom" Apparently the blurry, furry divide between reality on one side and fiction n' fantasy on the other concerns ...
Revamped MoMAT Opens with Unfinished Business
The Tale of Akebono Village (1953) As the first exhibition since its renovation, the Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT) has arranged...
Vincent van Gogh: Mad Artist Myth No Longer Holds
The Sower (1888) When you say the name Vincent van Gogh, you invariably invoke a legend, the legend of a wild, purely creative genius...
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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