Capture the essence: Subtile and beautiful photos of Hiroshi Iwasaki

 http://thesuperslice.com/…/goldfish-still-life-photography…/

Fuyuko Matsui - female Japanese artist, specializing in Nihonga illustrative paintings with a 'grotesque' or supernatural element

Fuyuko Matsui in front of Nyctalopia
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Despite its often shocking aspects, her art is part of the tradition of Japanese art going back centuries. For example, her painting "Insane Woman under the Cherry Tree" (2006) is inspired by "Ogress under Willow Tree,” a painting by Soga Shohhaku (1730–1781), the iconoclastic Edo-period painter, who was influenced by the art of the Muromachi Era painter Soga Jasoku (d. 1483). http://www.matsuifuyuko.com/

Despite their often shocking aspects, she claims that her art is part of the tradition of Japanese art going back centuries.
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Painting "Becoming Friends with All the Children in the World" by Fuyuko Matsui
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