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 ...

Pictures of Belonging at the Smithsonian American Art Museum spotlights Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, three ...

Japanese girls are taught the art of flower arrangement, by their mothers and even the poorest home will have its tokonoma niche where flowers are displayed beneath a cherished painting.

It has been through Japanese art and through Japanese history—the result of my falling in love with Japanese painting when still a very young man and an economist working for a London merchant bank.

Hiroshi Senju is a contemporary Japanese painter best known for his large-scale monochromatic depictions of waterfalls. View Hiroshi Senju’s 1,054 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, ...

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 ...

Near the end of “Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape,” three works by Monet, “Water Lilies” (1917-19) and two titled “The Japanese Bridge” (1918-24), display an unusual side ...

David Lee Roth's brush with art 05:30. In the quiet of a late summer night, the artist is at work. Sumi-e, the art of Japanese ink painting, is equal parts beauty and discipline.

Art critic Barry Schwabsky’s new book, Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism (DAP), delivers a global and multi-generational perspective on what may be the most ...

These scenes epitomize his attack on post-1854 Japanese society: In the era of rapid change, chaos was king, few seemed to know what was going on, and Western culture spread like a virus. Images ...