I loved reading what you said about this and your ideas about seeing beauty. Such a corny old phrase "Art is in the eye of the beholder", and yet it is really in the MIND of the beholder and dependent on so many other internal and external influences. In the same way that, for example right and wrong look very different depending on your culture and circumstance. I remember showing my father a photo of wide open paddocks on my friends farm. as I thought it was beautiful, open , no sign of man, no concrete or light poles...and yet he saw it as desolate, boring and empty because he was brought up on a farm but as a young man , couldn't wait to go to the city!
A very interesting article and I love the images. I hadn't heard of that last artist but will look him up now.
I think you are right. The way we look at things is definitely different depending on the life we have and the dreams we have. It also changes over the course of a lifetime. I can appreciate things now that I would not have been able to appreciate when I first left my small home village in France.
Takahashi Yuichi is not well known outside of Japan. He was the focus of an exhibition at the Kyoto Museum of Modern Art, but unfortunately I was not here at the time!
Thank you for that link. Its so interesting to see apanese life in a Western style of painting....it really brings that time to life whereas the traditional paintings (which I also love) are like elegant cartoons. I especially loved the one of thegeisha...she looks so real !
It is certainly a very interesting period in Japanese art, as painters try to incorporate Western techniques into their own practices, with very different results. Unfortunately, some of the earlier endemic techniques have been more or less abandoned. Some of them are still taught to some extent, but they are clearly not mainstream.
The eye of the beholder… love the control of the dragon and the goddess power involved as saviour of the people. Art can be seen in hidden places waiting for exposure by the eye of the beholder, you are right. It is a special sacred place and you bring it to us. Thank you. …
I like it too. What is also amazing is that even though it is a very local legend, it has not disappeared from folklore and continues to be revived from generation to generation.
There is an escalator decorated with a moving artwork depicting the legend. I just posted a picture in the chat room.
I loved reading what you said about this and your ideas about seeing beauty. Such a corny old phrase "Art is in the eye of the beholder", and yet it is really in the MIND of the beholder and dependent on so many other internal and external influences. In the same way that, for example right and wrong look very different depending on your culture and circumstance. I remember showing my father a photo of wide open paddocks on my friends farm. as I thought it was beautiful, open , no sign of man, no concrete or light poles...and yet he saw it as desolate, boring and empty because he was brought up on a farm but as a young man , couldn't wait to go to the city!
A very interesting article and I love the images. I hadn't heard of that last artist but will look him up now.
Thank you for your comment.
I think you are right. The way we look at things is definitely different depending on the life we have and the dreams we have. It also changes over the course of a lifetime. I can appreciate things now that I would not have been able to appreciate when I first left my small home village in France.
Takahashi Yuichi is not well known outside of Japan. He was the focus of an exhibition at the Kyoto Museum of Modern Art, but unfortunately I was not here at the time!
You can see more of his paintings on the Japanese version of his Wikipedia page here: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/高橋由一
Thank you for that link. Its so interesting to see apanese life in a Western style of painting....it really brings that time to life whereas the traditional paintings (which I also love) are like elegant cartoons. I especially loved the one of thegeisha...she looks so real !
It is certainly a very interesting period in Japanese art, as painters try to incorporate Western techniques into their own practices, with very different results. Unfortunately, some of the earlier endemic techniques have been more or less abandoned. Some of them are still taught to some extent, but they are clearly not mainstream.
The eye of the beholder… love the control of the dragon and the goddess power involved as saviour of the people. Art can be seen in hidden places waiting for exposure by the eye of the beholder, you are right. It is a special sacred place and you bring it to us. Thank you. …
It was very nice to go there with my little family. Thanks for your comment.
The story of the goddess and the dragon is beautiful. In Greek and Roman mythology the relationship is never quite that reciprocal or kind.
I like it too. What is also amazing is that even though it is a very local legend, it has not disappeared from folklore and continues to be revived from generation to generation.
There is an escalator decorated with a moving artwork depicting the legend. I just posted a picture in the chat room.