Kōno Bairei
Kudzu Vine and Quails
Bairei's Flowers and Birds
Woodblock Print
1883
(H x W): 14.5 x 9.4 (inches)
Publisher: Okura Magobei
Signature: Bairei (sealed)
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Yoshitomo Nara (Japanese b. 1959), Girl with a Knife, 1999. Acrylic, graphite, coloured pencil and crayon on paper, 20 1/8 x 14 1/8in. | 51 x 36cm.
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Yasuo Kuniyoshi in his New York City studio in 1940, exhibited with Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Hopper. But his work was quickly forgotten after his death in 1953.
Yasuo Kuniyoshi • Japanese-American • 1889-1953 • Painter, photographer and printmaker in various styles throughout his career.
Below: Self Portrait (as a young art student) • 1918 • Fukutake Collection, Okayama, Japan
Strongwoman and Child • 1925 • Smithsonian Museum of Art
Boy Stealing Fruit • 1923 • Smithsonian American Art Museum - Washington, D.C.
Boy Frightened by Water • 1924 • Smithsonian Museum of American Art
Child • 1923 • Whitney Museum of American Art
Maine Family • c. 1922-23 • Phillips Collection - Washington, D.C.
Yasuo Kuniyoshi painted Maine Family during one of the summers he spent at an artists’ colony in Ogunquit, Maine, in the 1920s. Source: Phillips Collection.org
Bather with Cigarette • 1924 • Dallas Museum of Art - Dallas, Texas, United States
The Island of Happiness • 1924 • Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Art © Estate of Yasuo Kuniyoshi
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Maki Na Kamura - Claim of Colours II, 2021. Oil, egg tempera on canvas. 110 x 170 cm
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TOSHIMITSU IMAI (Japanese, 1928–2002)
UNTITLED
Oil On Canvas, 36 1/2 x 28 1/4 In. (92.71 x 71.76 Cm.)
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In his early style of paintings the influence of the Fauves is to be seen. Later on in time colour is still an important, if not the most important aspect in his style. Changing from representational to abstract art in march 1955, Toshimitsu Imai organised a group show in his home country together with Sam Francis and George Mathieu in 1956. This decision had a crucial role in introducing European Abtract art to Japan.
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Yoshitomo Nara (Japanese b. 1959), Can't Wait 'til the Night Comes, 2012. Acrylic on canvas, 193.2 x 183.2 cm. | 76 1/8 x 72 1/8 in.
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Fumika Koda
Fumika Koda is a Japanese artist that focuses her art primarily on her rescue cats. Koda took in stray cats throughout her life, and soon began to depict their individual personalities in soft and intimate silk paintings.
Koda graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design and was a winner of the 2008 President’s Award at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art. Her art has been shown in Japan,…
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1924-Kuroda Seiki (黒田清輝 )
Viscount Kuroda Seiki (黒田 清輝, August 9, 1866 – July 15, 1924) was a Japanese painter and teacher, noted for bringing Western art theory and practice to a wide Japanese audience.
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