I hope that more visitors will take the time while they’re in Tokyo, not just to visit the places that everyone goes to, but to experience this distinctively Japanese style of painting that has ...

From fascinating woodblock prints and beautiful landscape paintings to eye-catching sculptures, Japanese artists have created ...

By Will Heinrich I’d always suspected as much, but the exhibition “Kimono Style: The John C ... s functional status as a garment and its painting-like display, to the tension between its ...

These new values also influenced the world of nihonga (Japanese-style painting). In 1914, the third year of the Taisho Era, the renowned nihonga painter Taikan Yokoyama (1868-1958) resurrected the ...

Yet, despite these notable amendments, it is a near-perfect copy of a painting designated a “National Treasure” by the Japanese government — rendered, in part, using artificial intelligence.

Matabei was a ki (eccentric or fantastical) artist revered for his unconventional, cartoonish style of painting and the perfect foil for Murakami’s own mischief. “Japanese Art History à la ...

Crucial to developing the new style was the Ichimokukai ... One precedent for abstraction in Japanese art is high-art calligraphy, in which intuitive expression overwhelms legibility.

The Beatles never gave their painting an official title, but it became known as “Images of a Woman” in the late 1980s when “a Japanese journalist thought he could see female genitals in Paul ...