Category: Japanese art

Dame Mitsuko Uchida: Mozart Sonatas

Hat Tip Many thanks to Friedrich Zettl for introducing me to this video in his post Project in the home straight – almost. Hear More Mozart At Sunnyside Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside

Van Gogh and Japan: Part 3

Japan in Arles “In early 1888, Van Gogh moved to Arles in the south of France, where he hoped to establish an art colony. Believing that painting could be reinvented through the genre of portraiture, he encouraged his fellow artists to paint themselves, and then to exchange the canvases. After receiving self-portraits from Emile Bernard…

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Happy Thanksgiving!

See More Torajiro Kojima at wikimedia Tag: Torajiro Kojima At Sunnyside Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside

Hauser: Vocalise (Rachmaninoff)

Hear More Hauser At Sunnyside Hat Tip Many thanks to L’Art en Tête for introducing me to this artist in the post This week : Kazuo Shiraga. Thanks for Visiting 🌻 ~Sunnyside

Enoki Toshiyuki: Sennyu (Spring), 2017

Who Is Enoki Toshiyuki? Educated in several different genres of lacquer painting, traditional Japanese painting and western painting, Toshiyuki Enoki’s works are an amalgamation of the new and the aged, reality and myth. The artist strives to antiquate his works, not only in his thematic tribute to well known traditional artists such as Maruyama Okyo,…

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Nakazawa Hiromitsu: Touching, Daughter from Beautiful Women and the Senses (1905)

Touching: Daughter from the series Beautiful Women and the Senses Shoku: Musume from the series Bijin to kankaku, 触（娘）　美人と感覚よ Japanese, Late Meiji era, 1905 Nakazawa Hiromitsu (Japanese, 1874–1964) Publisher Sunbikai Place of Creation: Japan Dimensions: Overall: 13.8 x 8.8 cm (5 7/16 x 3 7/16 in.) Medium or Technique: Color woodblock and stencil; organic and…

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Van Gogh & Japan: Part 2

‘Japonaiserie’ Begins The Convention of Kanagawa put an end to the 200-year-old Japanese foreign policy of Seclusion. and opened trade between Japan and the West. Artists like Manet, Degas and Monet, followed by Van Gogh, began to collect the cheap colour wood-block prints called ukiyo-e prints. Vincent and his brother Theo dealt in these prints,…

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Kojima Torajiro and His Patron

Japan Meets Modern Western Art Torajiro Kojima (1881-1929) was a Japanese artist who chose to use the same visual language as the Impressionists. After a course in Western painting at the University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo, Japan, Torajiro Kojima left Japan in 1908 to study in Paris, aided by his patrons, the Ohara…

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Torajirō Kojima: Woman Reading

Modern Western Art Meets Japan Torajiro Kojima (1881-1929) was a Japanese artist who chose to learn the techniques of the Impressionists. After a course in Western painting at the University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo, Japan, Torajiro Kojima left Japan in 1908 to study in Paris. With the Ohara family as patrons, he enrolled…

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