Ikuo Hirayama: Seeking Solace on the Silk Road
Mount Sumeru of the Western Pure Land (2000) Ikuo Hirayama clearly represents how the Japanese like to see — and project — the...
Drawing: Graffiti Sky
While tidying up and throwing away unnecessary things, I came across a catalogue by the photographic artist Rika Noguchi, whose exhib...
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...
Paul Klee: A Traveler Possessed by Light
Southern Coast in the Evening, 1925 Part of the game of art nowadays is for artists, whatever their influences and orientation, to avo...
Yuki Ogura: The Other Side of Modern
Women Bathing - I Anyone visiting the present exhibition at Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art might initially think they are...
Odilon Redon: from Darkness into Light
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...
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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