Nov. 22-Feb. 12 Hideo Sugita— also known as Ei-Q — made a stunning debut in the art world with his photo-dessins, a technique in which objects such as string and mesh are placed on photosensitive paper and exposed to light. Later in his career, he ...
Nov. 19-Jan. 15 Ukiyo-e is loved in part for the artistic value instilled in the demure female figures depicted in bijinga (beautiful women pictures) and the intense facial expressions of yakushae (pictures of kabuki actors). This exhibition, though, hopes to provide a new look at ...
Nov. 26-Jan. 29 In the waning days of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Western-influenced painting styles became prominent in Japan. Beginning with tools and technique, then style and perception, gradually more and more artists here began to expand their artistic repertoire by making ...
Nov. 19-Jan. 29 Over the past three decades, Tokyo's Setagaya Art Museum has amassed a collection of around 16,000 works broadly based on three themes: contemporary art, naive art (by artists who have not received formal art education) and art related to the Setagaya area ...
Nov. 19-Feb. 5 The job of a layout artist, which includes creating the backgrounds and elements that animators manipulate, doesn't sound particularly glamorous. However, a layout artist's work is fascinating and complicated, and the end result essentially provides the blueprint for most anime. The worlds of ...
Nov. 18-Feb. 26 Since it was founded in 1966, the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music has fostered many students who have been inspired by the rich forest that surrounds the institution. The Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art now celebrates the university's 50th ...
Kom_I, the lead singer of electro-pop trio Suiyoubi no Campanella, could very well be the personification of the term "free spirit." But before we get into her artistic exploits, a few things need to be made clear: She keeps her real name a secret and ...
Walking around Tokyo, you may have noticed a number of tall, narrow chimneys rising above the skyline every so often. Such stacks are a good indication that you've stumbled across a sento, or communal bath house. Long-time residents, however, will perhaps have noted that such ...
Nov. 16-Jan. 9 Odano Naotake, a samurai and retainer of Satake Shozan, an 18th-century daimyo of what is now Akita Prefecture, was a central figure of a style of painting that emerged during the mid-Edo Period (1603-1868) and later became known as Akita Ranga or ...
Nov. 3-Dec. 18 Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795) was a pioneer of bringing together Chinese and other East Asian techniques with the realism of Western naturalism within his Japanese-style painting. Though neither a simple reflection of realism nor naturalistic sketching, Okyo's work was originally criticized for being ...
