Teraoka drew on the Japanese heritage of kabuki theatre prints with their beautiful women and the shunga erotic prints with ...

also studied these woodblock compositions. Alfred Barr, the first director of the Museum of Modern Art, put “Japanese Prints” at the very top of his famous genealogy of “Cubism and Abstract ...

Objects include a woodblock print by nineteenth-century artist Utagawa Kunisada depicting the legend of the Shintō sun goddess Amaterasu. The tale of the selfless Rabbit in the Moon, famous for ...

To mark the British Council's 90th anniversary, Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Day and Online sale (Thursday, 10th ...

Shunga – Japanese erotic art – depicts a world awash with sex. In a famous image, a woman lies on the sea floor ... These gorgeous pictures were created by woodblock print artists and are crafted with ...

The impact of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural philosophy and his integration of form and function in the aesthetic and ...

Hiroko Imada: Tradition and Innovation Hiroko Imada is an internationally celebrated artist, best known for her expertise in Japanese woodblock printing ... attention to the use of vibrant blue hues ...

Kuniyoshi emphasized drawing from real life, which was unusual in Japanese training because the artist's ... By 1869, Yoshitoshi was regarded as one of the best woodblock artists in Japan. However, ...

While strolling or biking around Nakamachi, be sure to stop by the city’s art museum to see the permanent ... giving rise to the region's famous soba noodles. Thanks to Nagano’s high elevation in the ...