An Animist Explores Old Themes by Monty DiPietro
The new crop of nihonga artists have found favor both in Japan and abroad. Keizaburo Okamura is not one of them. At age 48, Okamura is charting his own territory, avoiding both the traditional Japanese themes and pop-flavored contemporary stylings. An exhibition of his new work is now at the Takahashi Collection Gallery, housed in a nondescript four-story building in Shinjuku’s Nishigokencho.
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NYAB Event - "Survey of Contemporary Japanese Art" Exhibition
The Dillon Gallery presents an exhibition of extraordinary contemporary artists including Chiho Akama, Makoto Fujimura, Masatake Kouzaki,Shinji Maeda, Kazumasa Noguchi, Keizaburo Okamura, Norihiko Saito, Hiroshi Senju, Chie Shimizu, & Asami Yoshiga. Many of these artists are practicing and responding to the ancient art of Nihonga, an art form that originated in Tang Dynasty China. It encompasses both an aesthetic approach and the use of time-honored materials such as ground semi-precious minerals (particularly azurite, malachite, and cinnabar), oyster shell, sumi ink, gold and silver leaf, rice and mulberry papers and silk.
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