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8 unusual facts about Japanese Art


Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo

When he returned to Manila, Zobel started in having interest in Chinese and Japanese art and took up calligraphy classes until 1960.

Luis Nishizawa

He began formal training as an artist in 1942 at the height of the Mexican muralism movement but studied other painting styles as well as Japanese art.

Mary Griggs Burke

Over fifty years, Burke acquired the largest private collection of Japanese art outside of Japan.

Otto Bettmann

Part of this collection was locked in a cabinet because it contained Japanese erotic woodcuts.

Right and Left

Its design recalls that of Japanese art, and the composition resembles that of a colored engraving by John James Audubon.

Suzanne Alaywan

She has admitted to Joan Miró as being inspiration to her work, in addition to Japanese art.

Tendai

Shedding worldly pleasures and attachments might seem to require that such flowers of culture as poetry, literature, and visual arts be given up.

Zbraslav

Today, it is a residential community and the home of the Chinese and Japanese collections of the Czech National Gallery.


Charles S. Terry

Charles S. Terry (1926–1982) was an American translator and academic in the fields of Japanese history, art, and literature.

Kyōka Izumi

He is best known for a characteristic brand of Romanticism preferring tales of the supernatural heavily influenced by works of the earlier Edo period in Japanese arts and letters, which he tempered with his own personal vision of aesthetics and art in the modern age.

Okura Museum of Art

The museum opened in Toranomon, Tokyo in 1917 to house the collection of pre-modern Japanese and East-Asian Art amassed since the Meiji Restoration by industrialist Ōkura Kihachirō.


see also

15th century in poetry

Ikkyū 休宗純, Ikkyū Sōjun 13941481), eccentric, iconic, Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest, poet and sometime mendicant flute player who influenced Japanese art and literature with an infusion of Zen attitudes and ideals; one of the creators of the formal Japanese tea ceremony; well-known to Japanese children through various stories and the subject of a popular Japanese children's television program; made a character in anime fiction

Abanindranath Tagore

With the success of Tagore's ideas, he came into contact with other Asian cultural figures, such as the Japanese art historian Okakura Kakuzō and the Japanese painter Yokoyama Taikan, whose work was comparable to his own.

Billie Miller

Her recreational activities include reading, interior design and Ikebana (the Japanese art of flower arranging).

Conrad Bo

The Superstroke Art Movement is a direct decedent of the concept of Generalism, and according to Bo, it is also greatly influenced by the Superflat, the Japanese Art Movement founded by Takashi Murakami.

Dick Lane

Richard Douglas Lane (1936–2002), known as Dick Lane, scholar, author, collector, and dealer of Japanese art

Ikeda, Osaka

Itsuo Museum holds the Itsuo Collection which is mainly Japanese art for cha-no-yu; Ikeda Bunko holds collections on Takarazuka and other materials related to Hankyu Dentetsu.

Jurōjin

He was introduced into the Japanese art tradition by Zen Buddhist painters, and depictions of Jurōjin span from the Muromachi period (1337 – 1573) through the Edo period (1603 – 1868).

Nanban

Nanban art, Japanese art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries influenced by contact with the Namban

Olive Rush

Rush considered her major influences to be early Chinese art, Japanese art, and El Greco.

Richard Lane

Richard Douglas Lane (1936–2002), scholar, author, collector, and dealer of Japanese art (known as Dick Lane)

Simon de Pury

His mother is Switzerland's leading expert in Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging, and his father was head of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche.

Spice Chess

An admirer of Japanese art, Maciunas asked Saito if she could make boxes similar to the Paulownia boxes he owned, which had been made to protect expensive ceramics.

Tatsumi Hijikata

Many of his early works were inspired by figures of European literature such as the Marquis de Sade and the Comte de Lautréamont, as well as by the French Surrealist movement, which had exerted an immense influence on Japanese art and literature, and had led to the creation of an autonomous and influential Japanese variant of Surrealism, whose most prominent figure was the poet Shuzo Takiguchi, who perceived Ankoku Butoh as a distinctively 'Surrealist' dance-art form.

The Japanese Art Society of America

While the Society now addresses all aspects of Japanese art and culture, it traces its origins to a small group of ukiyo-e print collectors in and around New York City in 1973, at a time when Parke-Bernet Galleries (later to merge with Sotheby's) had begun to develop a market for Japanese art.