Cover: the artist Monira Al Qadiri. Standing Guard for Our Great Motherland, art in the Cultural Revolution. Hope and Anxiety, Japanese art at The Met. Bird and flower paintings from China, in New York. From the Archives: Goa and the Great Moghul. The art of Fukuda Kodojin in Minneapolis. Surrealism and The East, in Shanghai. Indian cloth paintings. Rumi: a visual journey through the life and legacy of a Sufi mystic. Vienna’s World’s Fair of 1873. Artists shows: Min Jun Yeon, YZ Kami, Nabil Nahas, Soojin Kang, Lee Ufan and Yan Pei-Ming. Master craftsmen from Korea in London, Kabuki Legends in Oxford, and Offbeat Saris in London. Contemporary Chinese photography in Washington DC. Islamic Arts Diary.
Fukuda Kodojin – Landscapes Fukuda Kodojin (1865-1944) was among a handful of scholar-artists who continued the tradition of literati painting (nanga) after 1900. Kodojin’s painting style is characterised by bizarre mountain forms rendered in vivid colour or monochromatic ink that… Continue reading
Japan in Vienna It is believed that Japonisme has its beginnings in the workshop of a printer in Paris, when, in the 1856, the painter and printmaker Félix Braquemond (1833-1914) came across, by chance, examples of Japanese manga (kacho-ga) by… Continue reading
The mystic writings of the Persian poet known as Rumi (1207-1273) are generally considered to be the supreme expression of Sufism, the mystical trend in Islamic thought and culture. Rumi was born in 1207 in Vakhsh in present-day Tajikistan, to… Continue reading
Chinese Bird and Flower Paintings China’s artists have for centuries linked flora and fauna with auspicious meanings and scholarly virtues. There are flowers and plants associated with the four seasons and twelve months that convey a sense of time passing… Continue reading