IF CREATIVITY ENTERS IN DIALOGUE WITH TRADITION – Japanese imagery, between pop minimalism and retro shades

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Like origami, a way of being creative Japanese painting encompasses a wide variety of genres and styles, with ancient paintings…

THE BOY WHO LOVED READING CLASSICS AND COMICS – Mitsuteru Yokoyama, a Japanese manga artist

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When mangakas include Chinese and Japanese classics On an April morning, in 2004, he suffered burns due to a fire…

THE PHOTOGRAPHER OF RURAL JAPAN – Hiroshi Hamaya, famous Japanese photographer of the 20th century

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To capture and investigate a conclusion, with own eyes Hamaya Hiroshi https://www.shashasha.co/en/book/hiroshi-hamaya-photographs-1930s-1950s , one of the foremost Japanese documentary photographers…

THE EXUBERANT WAY TO BE DESIGNER – Kansai Yamamoto’s aesthetic of wild maximalism

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If design is self-realization In the way she dresses and uses bright colors, her name has become synonymous with avant-garde…

YOUR HOME WILL NOT BE A PLACE – Hagiwara Sakutarō and his modern Japanese verses

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When psychic terror fertilizes poetry With his book of poems, in 1917, he started a new poetic language in which…

A HAPPY BUTTERFLY, ON THE GLITTERING WIND – Kouji Wada and his adored theme song Butter-Fly

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Performing theme songs for anime franchise He died on a Sunday in April; he was 42 and his close relatives…

SURREALISM PAINTERS BEYOND BORDERS – Kikuji Yamashita, a Surrealist painter of postwar art movement in Japan

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A surrealist painter associated with the postwar avant-garde art movement in Japan Although he painted hundreds of canvases, he avoided…

JOURNEY TO THE ANTIPODS – Moving between curious people and places that are apparently distant

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In Wonderland, to discover the other side of creativity At the antipodes of Europe and southeast of New Zealand, where…

THE IMPORTANCE OF EDITORIAL FEEDBACK – Murray Ball, the cartoonist who delighted and offended his readers

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SIMPLICITY AND PHOTOGRAPHIC IMMEDIATENESS – Max Dupain and his desire to give life to the inanimate

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Photographing Sydney's emerging modernist architecture As a gift, he received his first camera in 1924. Born in Sydney (New South…