In an age of Y2K-inspired loud graphics (think neon chrome, pixel motifs and holograms), a contrasting movement has quietly ...

Inspired perhaps by European collage and frottage, or Chinese rubbings, he made his Things Japanese (Plate 22) by applying color to pieces of seaweed (a staple of the Japanese diet), two pond-lily ...

In her transcultural collection for Expo 2025, Polish designer Joanna Hawrot reimagines the kimono as a radical expression of ...

Artists from van Gogh, Whistler, Monet, and Edouard Manet to Klimt and Schiele were all, to varying degrees, influenced by the Japanese art. Van Gogh himself stated that he owed his inspiration to ...

One of the most-told stories about 19th-century art recounts how prints from Japan, suddenly available in the West after the country was wrenched open in the 1850s, profoundly altered European ...

French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20 th century, when various world fairs brought Japanese art to Europe. Struggling to get his own ...

But there's an alternative, eco-friendlier option that some are turning to this holiday season: the Japanese art of wrapping packages in cloth, known as furoshiki.

'Influential Japanese cuisine' (2/6). This slaughtering technique, which causes the animal less suffering and preserves it for longer, is increasingly appealing to French gourmets.

Pablo Picasso, a great admirer of Japanese art, is said to have owned one of the prints. Conservation: British Museum (Lond on) , The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) , Art Institute of Chicago .

The influence of European art became more widespread in the early 18th century. After decades of proscription, the shogun – or military ruler – Yoshimune lifted a ban on studying foreign texts ...

Van Gogh’s copy of the print of The Plum Garden at Kameido will be on display in the British Museum exhibition, on loan from Amsterdam. The Dutch artist’s own copies of Japanese prints are ...