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Thursday, 22 March 2012

Ikuo Hirayama: Seeking Solace on the Silk Road

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Mount Sumeru of the Western Pure Land (2000) Ikuo Hirayama clearly represents how the Japanese like to see — and project — the...
Saturday, 10 March 2012

Drawing: Graffiti Sky

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While tidying up and throwing away unnecessary things, I came across a catalogue by the photographic artist Rika Noguchi, whose exhib...
Thursday, 2 February 2012

Chronicle of Showa Era Erotic Gegika

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Artwork by Tsutsumi Tsutsumu Back in the 1970s, Japan had something of a porn boom. Strict censorship meant that things like full fro...
Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Paul Klee: A Traveler Possessed by Light

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Southern Coast in the Evening, 1925 Part of the game of art nowadays is for artists, whatever their influences and orientation, to avo...
Sunday, 29 January 2012

Yuki Ogura: The Other Side of Modern

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Women Bathing - I Anyone visiting the present exhibition at Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art might initially think they are...
Saturday, 28 January 2012

Odilon Redon: from Darkness into Light

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Pegasus and the Muse Odilon Redon (1840-1916) is one of the most intriguing painters of the turn of the 20th century. He is also one...
Wednesday, 14 December 2011

William Blake: Poetry and Old Testament visions make a perfect holiday exhibition

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Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind (1896) William Blake (1757–1827) combined the advantages of the outsider artist with those...
Wednesday, 9 November 2011

Painting: The Death of Amy Winehouse

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Monday, 26 September 2011

Maurice Denis: Flattening the art world with gentle avant-gardism

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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...
Sunday, 18 September 2011

Pierre-Auguste Renoir: A major Impressionist is thrown into sharp focus at the NACT

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Dance at Bougival, 1883 "Suteki (beautiful)!" the young mother cries, dangling her one-year-old infant in front of Renoir...
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