Archive for category japanese art
Hiroyuki Hamada: Sculptor
Posted by J. Quigley in 21st Century, 21st Century, art, Form, japanese art, sculpture, Zen on January 25, 2013
I always get excited when I find an artist whose work I want to follow. Hiroyuki is one of them. Richard Gailbraith wrote an article: Japan:Creative – Introduction, on CEMENTUM in August 2012, in which he included a statement of Hiroyuki’s work. I cannot say it better then him, that Hiroyuki’s work “oozed sci-fi whilst retaining an intrinsic ‘Japaneseness’ about it. It connotes to me Zen gardens and the post apocalypse at the same time.” Jeff Hamada, from Booooooom, ‘randomly came across Hiroyuki Hamada’s work, following a link from Newstoday.’ He shares the same name but in terms of immediate family they are completely unrelated. After seeing his amazing work he thought it would be fun to contact Hiroyuki and see if he would allow him to interview him, I mean how could he say no to family?
Octopus
Posted by J. Quigley in art, Basho, Haiku, Japan, japanese art, Koryusai, Poetry on May 17, 2012
Isoda Koryusai
蛸壺やはかなき夢を夏の月
takotsubo ya hakanaki yume o natsu no tsuki
an octopus pot —
inside, a short-lived dream
under the summer moon
Matsuo Basho
“An octopus that has entered the pot is content with the small world of its own and enjoys a night’s dream, never suspecting that it might be pulled up in the morning. A man born into this world is like that, too, as he lives a life as brief as a dewdrop. Such a view is presented in this poem. In view of the site, there may be historical allusions, too.” –Koseki
“Isn’t it impossible to imagine that Basho had completely entered the mind of an octopus inside the pot? He became an octopus, so to speak.” -Watsuji
And still another interpretation:
“In the Japanese poetic tradition, those who complain of the shortness of the summer night are, above all, lovers who have to part in the morning. Basho drew upon that traditional mood of romantic love and applied it to the life of an octopus dreaming a short dream in a pot, thereby turning it into humor.” -Yamamoto
The aforementioned haiku and commentary were
translated by Professor Emeritus Makoto Ueda.
Hokusai
Posted by J. Quigley in 19th Century, 19th Century, japanese art on December 10, 2011
Japanese Cranes
Posted by J. Quigley in art, japanese art, poems, words, writing on December 6, 2011
at the gate
so many in the mist!
Sumida River cranesIssa
via shogunpassion:
Japanese cranes by Dennis Binda
This Autumn Evening
Posted by J. Quigley in art, autumn, japanese art, Poetry, Uncategorized on November 28, 2011
by Ohara Koson
Like, Love, Enjoy…
Posted by J. Quigley in Calligraphy, japanese art on October 25, 2011
ki, yorokobu = like, love, enjoy, joyful thing
Yayoi Kusama
Posted by J. Quigley in 21st Century, 21st Century, abstract expressionism, art brut, feminism, japanese art, Minimalism, obsessivism, Pop, surrealism on September 9, 2011
Yayoi Kusama SELF POTRAIT WITH MIRROR
Yayoi Kusama ( born 1928, Matsumoto )
One of the largest contemporary artists in Japan.
Kusama is also enigmatic – critics have variously ascribed her work to minimalism, feminism, obsessivism, surrealism, art brut, pop, and abstract expressionism.
Because of fragile mental health, she voluntarily lives at a Tokyo psychiatric hospital, in a small room, for over 20 years.
Minako Kawauchi
Posted by J. Quigley in 21st Century, art, japanese art, Screenprits, Silkscreen on August 9, 2011
Minako Kawauchi, Sea Bream, 2005.
Hydrangea in Rain
Posted by J. Quigley in Ide Gakusui, japanese art, Woodblock Prints on May 30, 2011
Original Ide Gakusui
Japanese Woodblock Print
Hydrangea in Rain
via yama-bato
Eastern Eggs
Posted by J. Quigley in Japan Benefit, japanese art on April 25, 2011
Eastern Eggs for Japan Benefit, one+infinity
Yin Yang 