The art of Japan’s Edo period is undeniably beautiful, influencing creators across the centuries. Japanese artist Katsushika ...

he first became attuned to the beauty of Japanese art while living in Antwerp in 1885, when he pinned a set of black-and-white prints to his studio wall, a year or so before he moved in with his ...

It's a crucial work for understanding Japanese art—and Japan itself before it ... Three colorful figures trod slowly across the otherwise black and white expanse. The snow gives it charm.

Any black-and-white printer will tell you it`s no easy task to print a black-and-white photograph. It is, rather, an art, involving infinite shades of tones and contrasts. ”From any given ...

Jason Farago examines the moment when European art started turning Japanese. In the beginning was the wave. The blue and white tsunami ... icon of Japan since the print was first struck in ...

Hokusai’s The great wave off Kanagawa remains the enduring image of Japanese art. The print depicts a giant wave ... the central image of the work - the white-capped Mount Fuji - is easily ...