by kristan hauge | Jun 21, 2016 | exhibition review
I recently visited the Idemitsu Museum of Art to attend the second stage of the 50th Anniversary Exhibition ‘Celebrating the Beauty of Japanese Art II : Sublimity of Suiboku’. I was grateful for the opportunity to be able to directly compare two works of art, both...
by kristan hauge | Jun 1, 2016 | exhibition review
The Kobe City Museum’s recent art exhibition celebrated the Japanese bird and flower paintings of Kakutei (1722-1785), the Nagasaki born Obaku monk and artist. As a consequence of the Tokugawa shogunate’s isolationist policies, Nagasaki was the only place in Japan...
by kristan hauge | May 24, 2016 | exhibition review
Since the sets of scroll paintings were separated in the late 19th century, Jakuchu’s Sakyamuni Triptych and the Colourful Realm of Living Beings, had only been viewable together on two occasions: in 2007 at Shokokuji’s Jotenkaku Museum, and in 2012 at the National...
by kristan hauge | Apr 21, 2016 | exhibition review
The Art of Zen: From Mind to Form. Kyoto National Museum 2016, April 12 through May 22. This is an exceptional exhibition of Japanese paintings, both secular and non-secular, held in the repositories of Japan’s most important Zen temples. Of over 300 items...
by kristan hauge | Apr 9, 2016 | book review
Ink and Gold: Art of the Kano. Fischer, Felice; Kinoshita, Kyoko. Yale University Press, 2015. ISBN 10: 0300210493 ISBN 13: 9780300210491. In her preface, Felice Fischer writes, “After the early 20th century, the reputation of the Japanese Kano school suffered...
