Ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e is a type of Japanese art that thrived during the 17th to 19th centuries, focussing on paintings and woodblock prints.
Ukiyo-e, which translates to "Pictures of the Floating World," is a type of Japanese art from the Edo period. It includes woodblock prints and paintings showing famous actors, beautiful courtesans, city life, romantic landscapes, and erotic scenes. Artists in this genre created woodblock prints and paintings depicting various subjects, including female beauties, kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, historical and folk tales, travel scenes, landscapes, flora, fauna, and erotica. The term "Floating World" refers to the pleasure districts in Edo (now Tokyo) and represents the joys of city life but also reminds us that worldly pleasures are temporary.
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Emily Xie – Plastic code
Chinese-American artist Emily Xie’s coded creations replicate old world fabrics in new world media. Combining AI and generative methods, she asks what it means to be material in a digital world.
The story behind the KIDS SEE GHOSTS album cover
How Takashi Murakami transformed his painting Manji-Fuji into the perfect album cover for Kid Cudi and Kanye West’s joint project, KIDS SEE GHOSTS.
Susumu Kamijo
Susumu Kamijo was born in 1975 in Nagano, Japan, and is now based in Brooklyn, New York.
Kour Pour
Kour Pour was born in 1987 in Exeter, UK, and now lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.
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