It all started when Japan opened its doors to the West in the 1850s and Japanese works of art infiltrated Europe, the centre of interest being in Paris. By 1867 French Impressionist artists such as Claude Monet turned their attention to the popular ukiyo-e (‘pictures of the floating world’) woodblock prints and illustrated books that depicted life in the urban […]
It took three hours from Kyoto by train and bus (make that 6 hours return), but it was worth it … My friend with whom I was travelling had kindly acquiesced and agreed to my bizarre pilgrimage to see two rocks in the Genkai sea (the southwestern tip of the Sea of Japan). For some reason, when Gary Hickey, our […]
On 24 May 2011 the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) celebrated its 150th birthday, and on that day an exhibition displaying 107 vibrant paintings by 94 contemporary male and female Aboriginal artists living in the remote desert region of Western and South Australia (the Far Western Desert) opened at the NGV Ian Potter Centre (NGVA), Fed Square. You have until the […]
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