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...
Rembrandt: A Subtle Artist Who Glows in the Dark
Minerva in Her Study, 1635 Recently, thanks to the power cuts caused by the damage to the Fukushima nuclear reactors, many of us ha...
Hisashi Tenmyouya: Samurai with a Paintbrush
Para-para (Great Empire of Japan) vs. Break-dancing (America) (2001) One of the strangest and most interesting characteristics of ...
Chardin: Stooping to Conquer
Saying Grace The Mitsubichi Ichigokan Museum is deceptive in more ways than one. Not only is it a lot younger than it looks – it was ...
KEN YABUNO: EUROPA RE-REMEMBERED
Everything Appears If You Stand Still (2005) The Fascist dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco may not have been everybody's c...
Hisashi Tenmyouya: Neo-Nihonga Retro-Yakuza Pastiche
Good artists, like good DJs, know what to throw together to get something fresh going. This is especially true of Neo-Nihonga artists l...
The Balanced Eroticism of Titian's Venus
In a modern era, in which recreational sex, low birthrates, fractured relationships, and sexual commodification are commonplace, the so...
Nishiki–e Outshine Chinese Prints
"Plum Garden at Kameido" by Hiroshige Utagawa "The Birth of Nishiki–e," the current exhibition at the Ota Memoria...
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...
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...
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