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Japanese printmakers of ukiyo-e were fascinated by waves. In a different image to the classic wave Koga Kano shows the divers looking out at the wild churning rocky sea, watching the changing water-hills of the land of luck. #SeasandRivers #folklorethursday
Cats of ukiyo-e - Utagawa Kuniyoshi - #Caturday
Help! We're all going to die! And they were, in AD 79. Many artists reimagined the end of Pompeii. The city was rediscovered in 1599 and stories spread about the thriving resort city that died quickly and violently and the strange religions that flourished there. #MythologyMonday
Susasnoo the Japanese storm god - maybe his name comes from Korean for shaman. Exiled from Heaven for bad behaviour, associated with violent temper and calamity. Picture by Utagawa Kuniyoshi - recovering the stolen jewel from the dragon king's palace 1853 #mythologymonday
Today's 20th century artist - Sandro Chia - influenced by Chinese art, responding to elements that reflect with his pictures of 'viaggio' 'camminare' and paese. campagna - born in Tuscany
Crossing the Adriatic from Italia this morning, Boris Bućan is a Croatian artist and graphic designer, bright colourful designs, posters, public spaces, influenced by African textiles and art.
My Italian 20th century artist today is Enzo Cucchi of the transavantgarde movement - he's had a long career - from Morro d'Alba excited by poetry as an early interest - maybe even more important to him as a young artist what was happening in this area
For Mollusc Monday I'd like to celebrate images of molluscs in Japanese woodblock - woodcut was the first printmaking I did and I loved the grain - these terrifying human-mollusc encounters are by the wonderful artist-makers Yoshitoshi and Katusushika Hokusai #molluscmonday
@child_soviet I love this painting by Alexander Deineka - the intensity of reading - the paint hassome of the vigour of Van Gogh but painted with a brutal light, almost painting by numbers
My today's 20th century Italian artist is Nunzio Bava who drew the people of his native Calabria, labourers, the fields, the sun-sucked soil. His work is in the Palazzo della Cultura, Reggio Calabria, (opened May 2016) #italianart #italiano