Looking Within Shadows and Spaces – The Nature of Japanese Art, Part Two
Please see The Nature of Japanese Art, Part One (September 2019) for background information about the influence of Shintoism, Buddhism,
Category: Sculpture
Each Dewdrop on the Grass Reflects the Vastness of Moonlight – The Nature of Japanese Art, Part One
Images and text are best viewed on a wide screen. ◊ The art of seeing: two paintings of wisteria were made
Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?* – Rodin’s The Call to Arms, Part Two
In 1879, Auguste Rodin entered a competition to design a war memorial honoring the Parisians who defended the city while it
Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?* – Rodin’s The Call to Arms, Part One
(Above: Rue de Rivoli, Paris; 1871) What makes a war memorial appropriate or inappropriate? Whom or what should be remembered?
A Perfect Indian is He – Sculptures of The Buddha
In 563 BCE, in foothills of the Himalayas, a holy man prophesied that the king’s newborn son, Prince Siddhartha Gautama,
Send lawyers, guns and money – Houdon’s Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
There’s something special about marble. Ever since the invention of metal tools during the Bronze Age, marble has been carved by
The sculpture has been drinking – Picasso’s Sculpture, A Glass of Absinthe
Once it became widely available in the mid-1800s, a drink fondly nicknamed “the green fairy” became the liquid muse of choice
