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Van Gogh’s tribute to Hiroshige is expressed most dramatically in two paintings that were based on the Japanese artist's ...
Japanese landscape painting, especially in its earlier stages, when Chinese ideals controlled it, seems even more formal and unreal. Yet here also we may discover much that is beautiful.
While working in Washington, D.C. during World War II, Drucker had a lunch hour ritual: studying works of Japanese art at The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art, on the National Mall.
The writer and artist, known for “process-driven slow art”, journeys to the heart of creativity via William Blake’s poetry, ...
Alexander Coburn Soper, A Ninth Century Landscape Painting in the Japanese Imperial Palace and Some Chinese Parallels, Artibus Asiae, Vol. 29, No. 4 (1967), pp. 335-350 ...
In 2011, the Los Angles County Museum of Art announced the acquisition of “Cranes,” a breathtaking pair of six-panel painted screens by Maruyama Ōkyo (1733-1795), Japan’s leading 18th ...
Object Details painter Kent, Rockwell 1882-1971 Notes West, Richard V., "An Enkindled Eye: The Paintings of Rockwell Kent," Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1985, no. 29. "Rockwell Kent ...
Landscape painting is a well-known type of art that often shows a scene from nature, such as the countryside. Landscape paintings may include people or animals but the focus is the scenery.