Japanese art

Located at the Phoenix Art Museum is a unique work that was purchased “with funds donated by Jan and Howard Hendler” and created by Yayoi Kusama in 2005. The piece is titled You Who are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies and is a “mixed media installation with LED lights” that was created as a permanent piece to the Phoenix Art Museum’s collection. The work can be found in the South Wing on the Upper Level in the Contemporary Art section of the museum. The intention of this…

horrors. Makoto Fujimura, a world renowned painter, studied the traditional Japanese Nihonga technique in Tokyo. A creator of semiabstract art, he also integrates his Christian faith into his words and works. His book Refractions contains a series of his personal essays and speeches. They address a variety of topics, including Christianity’s relation to art, creative processes, and the impact of September 11, 2001 within the art world, as well as the broader culture. As Makoto Fujimura…

The Virtual Plaza: Exploring the emergence of the vaporwave genre and its relationship with glitch art and elevator music Matthew Rhodes, NM1013 During the last two decades, computer technology has made great advances in all respects, leading to the increased use of computers by artists. The emergence of digital art has led to developments of new genres in all areas of the arts, especially music. Electronic music producers now have the tools at hand to create music of any kind they please, and…

Exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Juxtapoz x Superflat was a show co-curated by Murakami, whose illustrations are often shown in gallery spaces, though he too retains a strong entrepreneurial sense. Directly drawn from traditionally flat Japanese imagery, Murakami’s superflat aesthetic appeals directly to otaku and kawaii culture, otaku as a fan-based subculture and kawaii as a culture of cuteness (Laurence). He views these cultures as a specific response to the trauma of Japanese people,…

21 century? Introduction Art has always been a way of expression, and throughout history artists were always at the forefront promoting, rallying and depicting their cause. Whether it was done dramatically and out loud through graffiti and campaign posters or hidden and smuggled around communities and concentration camps, art has always been present. Art is a constant behind nearly every revolution and movement, and according to contemporary artist Erin Currier “art is a necessary element of…

details on this screen are closer to the bottom, showing a little house at the corner on top of a hill surrounded by trees. This can symbolize where this artist had a secret getaway to create art. The use of so much midst can display the weak period of violence and…

introducing Aboriginal artists into contemporary art. Margaret was born on April 29, 1875, Port Adelaide. Margaret Preston was an influential teacher of art, taking students for private tuition. This influenced, and gave her the freedom to pursue her own artistic/creative visions. Preston’s students persuaded her to study in Europe and the United Kingdom to share more of her techniques. In 1929 Margaret became the first female artist to be commissioned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales to…

Art and literature can have a significant impact on the perception of cultures that we do not personally live in. These two mediums of communication are often overlooked, but can greatly change the perception of a place or culture. As human beings we are very susceptible to being influenced by our emotions and feelings, and art and literature both affect these two things. People often fall to the popular stereotype of the Chinese and Japanese people being rash and unloving. "Dreaming of Li…

The first piece of art found at LACMA was the Haniwa Horse. This art piece originated from Japan and were placed on top of tombs for the wealthy elite in Japan from 300 to 600 AD. Not only were animals used for rituals, but also human clay-like people and even houses. This type of sculpture is called a haniwa, meaning "clay ring. The Haniwa were made with water-based clay and dried into a coarse and absorbent material that withstand the test of time. The horse at the museum was four feet…

Nelson-Atkins Museum, in the Bloch Gallery of modern art, L2. I will describe and interpret this artwork. Yasuo Kuniyoshi was a Japanese-American artist born in 1889. He migrated to the United States as a teenager, alone. He attended high school in California. One of the instructors told him he had great potential as an artist. He then focused his attention to this craft and later attended art school in New York. Yasuo found his purpose and love of art in America. Yasuo was a graphic artist, and…