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Darryn George: Rata (2010)

Source: https://www.milfordgalleries.co.nz/queenstown/artists/208-Darryn-George

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Eizan Kikugawa 1787-1867 -  Twelve Hours in the Pleasure Quarter - Seiro Juni Toki - Hour of Tiger

Source: Artelino.com

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Ruth Watson: Lingua Geographica (North) (1996)

Source: Artandobject

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“Sea with Violet Clouds and Three Boats” (1946), Emil Nolde

Although he joined the Nazi party in the early ’30s, Emil Nolde’s paintings were confiscated from the museums and his work was slandered as Degenerate Art.

From 1941 on, he was prohibited from making art at all. Nolde, who was then in his seventies, secretly continued to paint…dangerous paintings, indeed.

Nolde called these small watercolor sketches, the size of postcards, “my unpainted pictures,”… “unpainted” in the sense that they did not officially exist and were not supposed to exist.

Kuniyoshi Utagawa 1797-1861:  Saimyoji Tokiyori - Travelling Regent - Kabuki

Source: Artelino.com

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Hodaka Yoshida - Maya

An example of Hodaka Yoshida’s Pre-Colombian inspired works. See my post below for more on this artist. Love it! 

Yoshitora Utagawa active c.1836-1880: Beauty Yushide - Kabuki

Source: Artelino.com

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Hodaka Yoshida (1926-1995): Distant View Yakushi-ji, Nara (1954)

Hodaka Yoshida is famous for his abstract woodblock prints and later surrealist works. The work above, reminiscent of the Shin Hanga style works of Hodaka’s brother Toshi and father Hiroshi Hodaka, is in stark contrast to this. Apparently, this work, and other works (see here, and here) created by Hodaka in the same year, commemorate locations visited by Hodaka and his then new wife, Chizuko during their honeymoon. In terms of Hodaka’s development, the works fall between the end of the artist’s 1953-54 Buddhist inspired prints, and his Mexican inspired abstractions for which he is most well known.

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Yoshiharu Ikuta 1828-1888: Englander - Yokohama-e

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Kåre Kivijärvi. Worlds End. Border. 1965

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