Harada Naojiro — Bodhisattva Kannon | Meiji Oil Painting

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Harada Naojiro — Bodhisattva Kannon | Meiji Oil PaintingHarada Naojiro (18631899) was a Meiji painter who studied in Munich and became one of Japan's most ambitious synthesisers of Western academic painting and Buddhist iconography. His masterpiece Bodhisattva Kannon on a Dragon (1888), painted in Munich, hangs in the Gunma Museum of Art and remains one of the most extraordinary cultural artefacts of the Meiji encounter with Western art a Buddhist subject rendered with European academic grandeur. Printed

gladiatorial arenas — defined the Western imagination of the East for a generation and remain the most collected and debated works of 19th-century academic painting

Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510) was the preeminent painter of the Florentine Renaissance and one of the most gifted draughtsmen in the history of Western art

This original promotional poster captures the film's bittersweet romantic comedy through the visual conventions of 1930s poster art

and raw graphic energy to achieve their theatrical impact

His works are now among the most valuable in the world

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) produced over 2

His India series — prints made during his travels through the subcontinent — brought to Japanese printmaking a new subject: the temples

the floral abstractions

and The Embrace are among the most iconic paintings of the 20th century

Shiro Kasamatsu (1898–1991) was one of the leading landscape printmakers of the Shin Hanga movement — an artist whose nocturnal urban scenes

His chromolithographic plates of geometric patterns

rendered in the visual language of the golden age of science fiction illustration

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