Sentences with phrase «as nihonga»

Yoshikawa employs traditional Japanese brush painting methods known as nihonga and sumi - e to create compositions reflecting nature and abstractions.

Not exact matches

(She also links the birth of the Mungnimhoe style to a traumatic period of Korean history, noting that the Ink Forest painters grew up under Japanese occupation and that for them «ink painting was an opportunity through which to free the mark from what its members saw as the obligations imposed on it via the dominance of nihonga, the body of paintings made according to traditional Japanese artistic conventions.»)

The particular form of nihonga practiced by Motonaga is known as tarashikomi, a type of painting that drops or pours succeeding layers of paint, without mixing them, over preceding layers before they dry.

In fact, unlike Murakami, Aida and Nara, who cite manga and nihonga painting as references in their work, Gokita tells me it was a generation of New York Neo-Expressionists, then centered around Mary Boone Gallery, who had made the biggest impression on him during his student days at art college.