The Adachi Museum of Art honors this resurrection with a show of 32 works by Taikan Yokohama alongside those by the second generation of members of the Nihon Bijustuin, including Yukihiko Yasuda ...

Delve back into Japanese art history and you’ll see a long tradition of using nature, religion and East-Asian philosophies as subjects, hence the prevalence of waves, mountains, plants and ...

The Japanese mind shows itself here, as elsewhere, to belong, generally speaking, to that class whose attitude toward art we term formal or classic. Japanese painting, indeed, had its periods of ...

A new exhibition at the British Museum features over 150 works of Japanese erotica. ... Sexually explicit Japanese art challenges Western ideas. 10 October 2014. Share Save. Alastair Sooke.

Her background in Japanese painting, which does not employ gradation, led to her stark black and white photographic style. “By drawing in black, the white of the paper becomes the equal ...

Miyoko Ito survived an earthquake, incarceration and illness. Her transporting paintings defied ideas about abstract art. By the time she painted this mysterious work in 1975, Miyoko Ito — the ...

A Japanese painting on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art depicts a small family sitting by a flowing river, the remains of their summer supper on a tray nearby.

Chiura Obata papers, circa 1891-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Collection Rights The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, ...