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Friday, March 29, 2024


Exhibition Public - USA & Canada

Every Living Thing: Animals in Japanese Art

Resnick Pavilion, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd,
Los Angeles, California, USA
Sep 22, 2019 To Dec 08, 2019


Detail: Every Living Thing: Animals in Japanese Art celebrates one of the most distinctive and compelling aspects of Japanese art: the depiction of animals. Underpinned by Japan's unique spiritual heritage of Shintō and Buddhism, the Japanese reverence for nature—and the place of animals within that realm—is expressed in sculpture, painting, lacquer-work, ceramics, metalwork, cloisonné, and woodblock prints.

Lions, dogs, horses, oxen, cats, fish, insects, birds, dragons, phoenixes—animals warm and cold-blooded, real and imaginary—are meticulously and beautifully rendered in myriad works from ancient 6th-century clay sculpture to contemporary art. Arranged in themes such as Zodiac Animals, Animals from Nature, Religion, Myth and Folklore, and Leisure, the exhibition draws heavily from LACMA’s permanent collection and includes masterpieces from Japanese and American public and private collections, some of which are on view for the first time.

Site URL: https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/every-living-thing-animals-japanese-art



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