Saturday, December 4, 2010

Japan


Kano Eitoku. Fusuma. c. 1563-1573.

In Fusuma, there is a beauty in the unity achieved by the piece occupying two compositions.



Fan Kuan. Travelers Among Mountains and Streams. Northern Song Dynasty


Japanese artists took mundane asymmetrical and disconnected reality and created extremely stylized and abstracted portrayals of nature.

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