Protecting Your Shikishi with Tatōshi Looking for the best way to protect your shikishi boards ? A tatōshi is the traditional solution....

そがひろし は、ぶつだん パネル を つかい、グリッド や はな の もよう によって いのち の じゅんかん を えがきます。 「ラスコー」 と 「きはい」 に みちびかれた さくひん は、みえない そんざい と これから あらわれる ちから を しずかに つたえます。

Hiroshi Soga transforms traditional butsudan altar panels into poetic paintings where grids, fragments, and flowers echo cycles of life and impermanence. Guided by the ideas of “Lascaux” and kihai, this article explores how his work invites us to sense an unseen presence.

During the Heian period, the practice of mounting short poems (waka) on small, square or rectangular sheets of ornamented paper became widespread in aristocratic circles. These sheets—often dyed, brushed with mica, or decorated with gold and silver—were then affixed onto larger surfaces such as folding screens (byōbu) or sliding doors (shōji), creating visually rich, multi-poetic compositions. These arrangements were known as shikishigata—literally, “in the form or style of s

This life-size work, created by Ortaire de Coupigny using wax and noir de fumée , is the result of a deliberate process blending...

Explore figurative abstraction, where form and emotion merge. Discover key artists and techniques shaping this expressive art movement today

Few artists manage to blur the lines between sculpture, painting, and conceptual art as seamlessly as Ortaire de Coupigny.

Ortaire de Coupigny's artwork titled Punk is not dead! embodies his characteristic humor, cultural commentary, and inventive use of material

As recounted in the inaugural post of this blog, the launch of an online gallery feels akin to embarking on a digital odyssey—a...

It was in the city of Le Havre, France, in 1872 that Claude Monet painted 'Impression, Sunrise,' which gave its name to the Impressionist...

In 1922, Paul Signac spends the summer in Port Louis, Brittany. Alongside Georges Seurat, he is one of the founders of the Pointillist...