Female Student and Violin from the series Beautiful Women and Music (Bijin to Onkyoku)
Color woodblock; stencil; organic and inorganic colorants on Japanese paper adhered to card stock
Fujishima Takeji (Japanese, 1867–1943 Japanese), Publisher Sunbikai
Leonard A. Lauder Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Surreal Painting by Japanese artist Ydk Morimoe
Electric guitar (Pro II U series Urchin Deluxe model)
The dramatic curves of the Urchin guitar might have been inspired by the spiny points of the instrument's sea-dwelling namesake, or they might suggest the sinister fins of a shark. Regardless, the reference to ocean life is evident, with the deeply shaded blue-black varnish over a striped maple veneer that suggests ripples in a sandy beach as the ocean breaks over it. Various other guitar models from the 1980s experimented with abstract, pointed designs, as heavy-metal bands sometimes used their instrument's weapon-like appearance as a visual complement to the loud, thrashing music that was their trademark. Probably inspired by the work of B.C. Rich, a California guitar maker who started building guitars with similarly spiky outlines a decade earlier, the Urchin never sold as well as the company's more traditionally shaped models of classic American guitars.
Arai Company (Aria trademark), Nagoya, Japan
Stoneware with natural ash and iron glaze
Asian Art Museum http://searchcollection.asianart.org/view/objects/asitem/nid/19321
Photography, fabric work, makeup, embroidery, etc.
http://www.artnet.com/artists/atsuko-tanaka/1980-d4-a-0vlMJTrN6aTPVlA-XP_I_Q2 Can be found at SCAI The Bathhouse/Shiraishi Contemporary Art Inc.
Artnet Worldwide Corporation SCAI The Bathhouse/Shiraishi Contemporary Art Inc.
Paper, watercolors, drawings, guash, ink. On paper.
Image of Kazuo Ohno performing his dance "Water Lillies" in 1987. Dance style: Butoh
Dancer and choreographer: Kazuo Ohno Photographer: Nourit Masson-Sekine
24 color print on satin paper; 56cmx56cm
This is a bear sculpture carved by an Ainu artist, Matsui Umetaro. These bears became very popular souvenirs from Hokkaido in the early 1900s.
Artist, Noriko Kawamura, created this abstract piece after seeing textile art done by Peramonkoro Sunazawa, a respected Ainu textile artist.
Ainu: Spirit of the Northern People, Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History