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.

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

“The seasons have affected Japanese and Chinese art in profound and distinct ways,” said Ann Yonemura, senior associate curator of Japanese art. “In Japan, art and poetry reflect the gentle changes in ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With more than 300 works drawn from 66 Japanese institutions and 30 American collections, the National Gallery of Art has had its hands full during the summer.

Sumi-e, the art of Japanese ink painting, is equal parts beauty and discipline. David Lee Roth, artist. CBS News "You're a night owl – you usually paint and draw at night?" ...

Kato was born in 1969 in Shimane Prefecture, to the west of the Japanese peninsula. Originally having aspirations of becoming a musician, he only took up art at the age of 30, graduating from the ...

His research interests in Japanese art included Japanese ink painting of the medieval period, the arts of Zen Buddhism, Heian and Kamakura narrative painting, Sino-Japanese cultural history of the ...

“It was really a global movement, and [Monet] was at the forefront of it,” DeWitt says. SEE IT: Monet’s Floating Worlds at Giverny: Portland’s Waterlilies Resurfaces at Portland Art Museum ...