Tokyo Art Tour: How secular, erotic Japanese Ukiyo-e saved European Impressionist masters
Jiannan Wang on Thursday, February 8, 2018
Beijing curator and art columnist
“Collect beads as you go about your daily life, be it philosophy, history, art, film or sociology. Travel as a thread to thread them all. The process of threading the beads is the greatest value of the journey.” – Wang Jiena
In this podcast, Wang Jiainan, a Beijing-based curator and art columnist, shares his impressions of his visit to Tokyo: from the Van Gogh exhibition to ukiyo-e’s influence on Impressionism; From the bubble economy to the improvement of Japanese people’s artistic culture. Next time you go to Japan, in addition to eating and shopping, you can also see the island nation from an artistic and cultural perspective.
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The knowledge points mentioned in the podcast
- Float world draw
- Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese edo Period Ukiyo painter
- Whistler
- Aesthetic education
- Franz Schubert was an Austrian composer
- Sandro Botticelli was a famous Florentine painter in the late 15th century
- Mei Yiqi: Knowledge is the foundation, expertise is the end (correction: this is from Mei Yiqi, the podcast accidentally said CAI Yuanpei.)
Podcast profile
- Van Gogh: Japanese Dreams on the Move, Tokyo;
- How ukiyo-e spread to Europe and its influence on the impressionist masters;
- How the Japanese bubble economy “bred” the national aesthetic education;
- How to plan art and culture tour strategies to make the trip more meaningful and hierarchical;
- Recommended App: NAT School of Art
Heavy resources
- Wang Jiannan’s column “A Picture of a Lifetime” : “Japan’s Bubble Age and Impressionism: Cherry blossom and Water lily”
- Wang Jiannan’S wechat official account: Nanmeimei2016
- NAT Art College App: Help you systematically improve your artistic aesthetic literacy
- Doko.com App – Change is at hand every moment
In the next podcast, Wang Jiannan talks about the “future” crisis of ARTIFICIAL intelligence and the future of Chinese aesthetic education from the scene of Cyberpunk in Tokyo. She also shared how she continues to learn and improve herself.
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Although it was only the eighth episode of the podcast, I learned a lot because the guests not only opened my eyes, but also changed some of my own humble opinions and reminded me to be humble at all times.
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