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Creativity? A dazzling hall of mirrors, with pumpkins inside. It’s a good base for trips into the Japanese Alps (such as the Tateyama-Kurobe Alpine Route), but in Matsumoto – second largest city in Nagano Prefecture – you can discover one of Japan’s most beautiful original castles. Accommodations (hotels, mountain huts and camp grounds), is available along the route. From mid …

Painting girls while they walking to the house with the wolves. The secrets of the Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum’s success? Maybe spectacular view on the 52nd and 53rd floors of the Mori Tower. Its exhibitions are always focused on contemporary culture. It was originally the private estate of an business tycoon, and the building is typical of the work of …

A young girl’s elegant composure, inside a uncertain gaze. Its name means “Oyster Wharf” in Chinese. Here was born Realist painter Zhao Kailin. Bengbu is a city in northern Anhui Province, China. Its dishes are one of the three flavors of Anhui cuisine. Here there are beautiful and tranquil place. In the south Huaiyuan County, White Milk Spring gets the …

Paint feelings and attitudes towards life, through the tone of colours. Here you can admire Shengshui Temple and Zizhong Confucius Temple. In medieval times this locality was an important salt-producing area. Its geographic location puts it in southern Sichuan. Neijiang is the hometown of Zhang Daqian (one of the best-known and most prodigious Chinese artists of the twentieth century), such …

Women with suggestive eyes, with delicate mouths. The Uttar Pradesh is a state in northern India. This land has several historical, natural, and religious tourist destinations (such as Agra and Gorakhpur, Lucknow and Faizabad. In this land was born painter Gogi Saroj Pal. Uttar Pradesh is known for its extensive avifauna (such as peafowl and black partridges, songbirds, snipes and …

The meaning, is within you, the viewer. Gurgaon is a city in the Indian state of Haryana. Notable performing art venues in the city include Epicentre and Nautanki Mehal. Bollywood actor Rajkummar Rao and painter Geeta Vadhera was born under this sky. Special tourist places waiting for you, such as Kingdom of Dreams (India’s first live entertainment, theatre and leisure …

The anthropologist of American life. THOMAS HART BENTON was born in a April day in Neosho (Missouri), where politics was the core of family life, but with his mother’s encouragement, he chose to study art. Rebelling against the expectations of his family he moved to Chicago, where he enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago. In his paintings, he was …

His illustration work inflected his paintings, helping to shape his technique. JOHN FRENCH SLOAN started his career as an illustrator. Between 1892 and 1915, illustration was his primary means of support on newspapers and magazines. Bornin in a August day in Lock Haven (Pennsylvania), he moved to Philadelphia with his family at the age of five. Grewing up in a …

The pioneer woman of non-traditional pictorial imagery. For her, without sincerity there is no true art. With an art scholarship in 1950, she enrolled at a school of arts in London, and later to the Ecole des Beau Arts, Paris. In her early work, she attempted to explore also surrealistic paintings. Creating paintings (that will enable future generations to share …

Asian roots and shifting Identities. To explore social and political issues, her work uses the contemporary miniature form. Her work offers a voice against ignorance and prejudice, also through the use of caricature and satire. SAIRA WASIM she went to Lahore’s National College of Arts, where she graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Arts. Her art has been shown in …