Artist Birthday: Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915 Japan)
Kiyochika Kobayashi was undoubtedly one of the late, great masters of the Ukiyo-e style in the late 1800s Japan. He brilliantly blended tradition with Western influences. ...
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Artist Birthday: Suh Do-Ho (born 1962 South Korea)
The outstanding history of Korean art continues to the present day with a contemporary art scene that is one of the most vital in the current art world. Suh Do-Ho is an amazing artist whose works conf ...
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International Tiger Day
This beautiful piece of Cizhou ware dates from a period when tigers were not an endangered species. In 2010, the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit of 13 tiger-range countries in Russia established Interna ...
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National Great Outdoors Month: Art by Cheng Tsung Feng (born 1987 Taiwan)
National Great Outdoors Month began as National Great Outdoors Week in 1998 in the US. In 2019 the US Senate created National Great Outdoors Month for June, to encourage people to enjoy the recreation ...
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Artist Birthday: Watanabe Kunio (born 1967 Japan)
Long before ceramic arts were recognized as fine art in the West, the art form was revered as a priceless national treasure in Japan. Contemporary artists like Kunio Watanabe continue to build on the ...
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Artist Birthday: Tsujimura Shirō (born 1947 Japan)
Like many of the Japanese artists born after World War II (1939-1945), the art of Shirō Tsujimura is a reverent combination of honoring ages-old Japanese artistic traditions, and adding contemporary a ...
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National Beverage Day
National Beverage Day began around 1921 or 1922, originally known as National Carbonated Beverage Day. The day encourages people to grab their favorite drink and relax with friends. But, beverages are ...
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National Picnic Day: Art by Mori Keiko (born 1939 Japan)
Keiko Mori is a National Living Cultural Treasure in Japan. Her ceramics celebrate the centuries old traditions in ceramic arts. Although ceramic picnic baskets do not strictly speaking exist in the W ...
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Artist Birthday for 12 March: Anish Kapoor
Although in the early 1980s Kapoor’s work was consciously absorbing aspects of Indian culture, in the late 1980s into the 1990s he began to formulate an abstract visual language that transcends ...
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Artist Birthday: Mori Mariko (born 1967 Japan)
Mariko Mori is an internationally acclaimed artist whose practice explores universal questions at the intersection of life, death, reality, and technology. She is known for her photographs and videos ...
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