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Giving new meaning to the term "mixed medium," an artist who layers his canvases with acrylics, oils and elephant dung last week received Britain's top art award, the Turner Prize. CHRIS OFILI, born in England to Nigerian parents, said a trip to Africa inspired him to use the excrement, sometimes decorated with glitter and beads, in his otherwise brightly colored paintings. Originally, he imported the pachyderm parcels from Zimbabwe, but now he uses the more readily available domestic variety he finds at the London Zoo. Proving how multifaceted feces can be, Ofili rests his works on resin-coated balls...
...overall quality of the live-action pictures that Disney cranked out under Katzenberg made that a fair question. But when it came to animation, the dog had his day. After initial indifference, Katzenberg fell in love with the medium. Disney's animated films climbed an arc that peaked in 1994 with the $755 million that The Lion King grossed worldwide. But that film opened just weeks before Katzenberg was ejected in a play for advancement that went sour. Disney's subsequent cartoons--Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Hercules--failed to replicate that level of success. Was it animation...
...Gogh show, but the exhibition that Vincent himself, as an obsessed lover of Japanese art, would most likely be heading for hangs in another part of the National Gallery of Art. It is "Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868," a magnificent selection of nearly 300 works in every medium, from woodblock prints to lacquerware, from tiny netsuke to eight-fold painted screens, assembled by the American scholar Robert Singer and mostly lent by Japanese institutions. It is replete with objects listed in Japan as "National Treasures" and "Important Cultural Properties," many of which have never been seen outside Japan until...
...subject matter to 18th century graphic artists like Suzuki Harunobu, Kitagawa Utamaro and the theater caricaturist Toshusai Sharaku, whose image of the actor Otani Oniji III playing a samurai's manservant, all red-rimmed eyes and stylish snarl, is a deliciously succinct expression of fictive bloody-mindedness. Through the medium of prints, the range of things that could be depicted widened to take in all Japan. Katsushika Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji and Ando Hiroshige's Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido are both travelogues and social listings, in which every sort of occupation, from pit sawing...
...decorative arts than Edo Japan. Ceramics, lacquer and textiles were brought to an extraordinary pitch of aesthetic concentration by a large body of artisans whose collective skills have never been surpassed, in Japan or anywhere else. And skill was key. Edo artists and patrons loved virtuosity within a given medium, but they didn't have a hierarchy of art and craft. To them, the work of the lacquerer or the papermaker was no less worthy than that of the screen painter, and in any case so many media could converge in a single work that art hierarchy became meaningless...