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.

Contemporary Japanese art is in a transitional phase. Western styles and techniques are being assimilated, sometimes with too great a degree of imitation.

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 ...

In Sight Traditional Japanese painting inspires these photographic landscapes August 7, 2019 Perspective by Chloe Coleman ...

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.

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 ...

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?" ...

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 ...