The face of a rugged mountain peak is made up of grand, astonishing rocks, while a bargeman leisurely paddles a small boat as he passes by a large, thick tree. Such a scene depicted in landscape ...

“Shanshui: Echoes and Signals”, the new exhibition at Hong Kong’s M+ museum of visual culture in West Kowloon, adopts an all-embracing approach to the genre of East Asian landscape painting that ...

One needs years of immersion in Chinese culture, language, history and philosophy to be able to fully appreciate the timeless beauty and symbolic richness of Chinese ink paintings. Despite this, ...

I hope that someday I’ll have the opportunity to travel to Japan and China to witness the gardens and museums. Until that time I’ll have to be content to visit Asian gardens created in the West, and ...

Eminent art historians and critics spoke about the art works and the artist's journey An artist’s ‘self’ can be perceived in his art. The soliloquy of the Padma Vibhusan awarded painter BenodeBehari ...

For many years, Kim Van Do, who is Vietnamese and Dutch, and grew up in New York, has been part of a weekly drawing group that has included, at various times, Eric Holtzman (whom he has known for many ...

Japanese landscape paintings on folding screens had religious and political purpose as early as the eleventh century. Surrogates for the land, these works were employed in rituals to secure the ...

Remote Futures, Darren Waterston’s first show at DC Moore Gallery, is a fascinating combination of Japanese landscapes and science fiction. The artist references traditional Japanese landscape ...

Everything has its beauty, but not every one sees it. — Confucius. “THERE are cases,” says the critic Moto-ori, “in which a precise reproduction of a thing as it is in nature produces a bad picture ...

In June 1934, at the age of 24, long before he became known as “the father of modern management,” Peter Drucker was walking home from work in London and was suddenly caught in a rainstorm. He sought ...

Japanese landscape paintings on folding screens had religious and political purpose as early as the eleventh century. Surrogates for the land, these works were employed in rituals to secure the ...