Hasegawa Tohaku Gets His Due
Tigers and Bamboo (detail) The present exhibition at the Idemitsu Museum, "New Discovery: The Beauty of Hasegawa TÅhaku," h...
Drawing: Zen Number One
This artwork mixes subtle figurative elements, based on a sketch by Michelangelo, with abstract riffing that explores, without filling, ...
James Ensor: A Touch of Madness
The Intrigue (1890) The impression given by the prints, paintings, and drawings of the Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949) is of a...
The Disconcerting Unity of Raphael
Madonna del Granduca Harmony can sometimes have a disconcerting side. This is one insight to emerge from the Raphael exhibition at th...
A Candle Held up to a Rediscovered Master: Georges de La Tour
The Dream of Saint Joseph, c. 1640 Most of the great artists are instantly recognizable. As soon as you see one of their works, you i...
Maurice Utrillo: Un peintre solitaire qui aimait Paris
Lapin Agile, 1914 Maurice Utrillo is one of those artists who seem to defy gravity. When you take a good, long look at his canvases a...
The Rich Restlessness of Rubens
The Resurrected Christ Triumphant (ca. 1616) The 17th-century Flemish baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens is a great historical painter...
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 ...
Mixed Media: Bird
This is a mixed media work I created in about five seconds, using a found object, namely a blurry photo from an exhibition catalogue, an...
Rembrandt Still Outshines Vermeer
Susanna by Rembrandt The first exhibition at the newly renovated Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art (TMMA) was always going to be an im...
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