18 maio 2007

In Japan, When Word Was Wed to Image



The 18th-century painter and calligrapher Ike Taiga was something like the Pablo Picasso of Japan. The comparison, while superficial, is hard to resist as you wade into the dazzling, almost daunting retrospective of Taiga’s work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and begin to absorb the many sides of his achievement.

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