Life of Animals in Japanese art

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  • Cooperix
    Member
    • Nov 2013
    • 502

    Life of Animals in Japanese art

    Greetings art lovers,

    A current exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC deserves a mention. This exhibit is a survey of Japanese art spanning 17 centuries. I found it interesting that many of the artist were women. Unusual evidently in Japan's history of art making. Enjoy. Would love to see the exhibit in person.

    Because John Daido Loori's book (The Zen of Creativity) is so much about Japanese arts I thought some of you that are following our discussion in the Art Circle might find this exhibit interesting.
    With more than 300 works drawn from 66 Japanese institutions and 30 American collections, this is likely one of the largest exhibitions of Japanese art that a generation of Americans will ever see.


    Gassho

    Anne

    ~lahst~
  • Jinyo
    Member
    • Jan 2012
    • 1957

    #2
    Thanks Anne,

    I subscribe to the hyperallergic site but had missed this entry. Would love to go too!
    I bought a lovely book on Hokusai from the British Museum when I couldn't make it to the exhibition.
    It included information on his daughter Eijo who was also a talented painter and assisted her father a lot.
    Interesting that many of the artists in the current exhibition were women.

    Gassho

    Jinyo

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    • Meitou
      Member
      • Feb 2017
      • 1656

      #3
      How did I miss this??
      Such a lovely article and the artworks are beautiful, I agree, I would love to see this.
      I'd never heard of hyperallergic and I'm now subscribing to the newsletters, so thank you Anne.

      Gassho
      Meitou
      sattodaylah
      命 Mei - life
      島 Tou - island

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      • Kokuu
        Dharma Transmitted Priest
        • Nov 2012
        • 6880

        #4
        Thank you!

        That looks like such a great exhibition!

        On the subject of Japanese art and creatures I can recommend this lovely little book which is a combination of traditional haiku and Japanese art on the subject of our friends from the animal realm:

        Haiku Animals

        Gassho
        Kokuu
        -sattoday/lah-

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        • Onka
          Member
          • May 2019
          • 1576

          #5
          Originally posted by Cooperix
          Greetings art lovers,

          A current exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC deserves a mention. This exhibit is a survey of Japanese art spanning 17 centuries. I found it interesting that many of the artist were women. Unusual evidently in Japan's history of art making. Enjoy. Would love to see the exhibit in person.

          Because John Daido Loori's book (The Zen of Creativity) is so much about Japanese arts I thought some of you that are following our discussion in the Art Circle might find this exhibit interesting.
          With more than 300 works drawn from 66 Japanese institutions and 30 American collections, this is likely one of the largest exhibitions of Japanese art that a generation of Americans will ever see.


          Gassho

          Anne

          ~lahst~
          Thanks for this Anne.
          Gassho
          Anna
          Sat

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          • Onka
            Member
            • May 2019
            • 1576

            #6
            Originally posted by Kokuu
            Thank you!

            That looks like such a great exhibition!

            On the subject of Japanese art and creatures I can recommend this lovely little book which is a combination of traditional haiku and Japanese art on the subject of our friends from the animal realm:

            Haiku Animals

            Gassho
            Kokuu
            -sattoday/lah-
            Thanks Kokuu
            Whenever anyone recommends a book my partner and I would likely enjoy I copy the link to a folder I have on my little tablet thingy and when we win lotto the first thing I'm doing is getting these books.
            This one is definitely on the list!
            Gassho
            Anna
            Sat

            Sent from my Lenovo TB-8304F1 using Tapatalk
            穏 On (Calm)
            火 Ka (Fires)
            They/She.

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            • Meitou
              Member
              • Feb 2017
              • 1656

              #7
              Originally posted by Kokuu
              Thank you!

              That looks like such a great exhibition!

              On the subject of Japanese art and creatures I can recommend this lovely little book which is a combination of traditional haiku and Japanese art on the subject of our friends from the animal realm:

              Haiku Animals

              Gassho
              Kokuu
              -sattoday/lah-
              That's lovely, but oh I'm crying with laughter; I thought I'd google Utamaro to look at some of his insect images. That's not exactly what I found
              But fear not, here are a frog and a beetle. Not having sex.

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              Gassho
              Meitou
              sattodaylah
              命 Mei - life
              島 Tou - island

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              • Cooperix
                Member
                • Nov 2013
                • 502

                #8
                Kokuu, thanks for the book recommendation!

                On my list.

                Gassho

                Anne

                ~lahst~

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