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...
Fuyuko Matsui: Pinpricks in the Darkness
The Beautiful and Disturbing art of Fuyuko Matsui Art, despite all its complexities and convolutions, is and always has been...
Marc Chagall: Painting the great power of love
L'Anniversaire In Japan July 7th is a special day. It is the festival of Tanabata when two celestial starcrossed lovers cross t...
The Blond Ambition of Tamara de Lempicka
Portrait of Ira P, 1930 I'm not sure what Lady Gaga — who arrives in Japan shortly — has in her art collection, but given time (a...
Alessandro Papetti: Dynamic Space
Milan, 2008 Since being featured at the Venice Biennale in 2003, Italian oil painter Alessandro Papetti has started to gather a cri...
A New Shrine to Real Excellence Opens in Chiba
Distant Memories, 2009, by Osamu Obi Have you heard of Sosuke Morimoto? No? Well, then, how about Ryo Shiotani or Osamu Obi? Nope? OK,...
The National Art Center Tokyo relives memories of European art
Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist, c.1535 I learnt my trade as an art journalist purely by accident. Back when I was a poo...
Impressionist originality challenged by Italian 'patch' painters
Cristiano Banti's "Peasant Women in Conversation" (1861) Artistic reputations are very important to some countries. I...
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