Monday, September 10, 2018

"Japonisme: Japan and the Birth of Modern Art" (NGV)

Not really the exhibition's fault that I'd hoped it would be much more heavily about the way Japanese art influenced western art (as in paintings) than it actually was; the tilt was more heavily towards decorative design and objects. Quite a bit of Streeton. At least I saw one enjoyable woodblock of Oniwakamaru subduing a monstrous carp (mid 19th C, Utagawa Hiroshige) ... to be honest there were probably other good bits, but I wasn't in the zone.