Kyosai.

I think i recently swore off going to art galleries unless there was a specific exhibition i wanted to see. Well, there was an exhibition i specifically wanted to see at The Kyoto National Museum, so i went there yesterday!

The exhibition was called "Kyosai". I knew nothing about it aside from the yellow advertising posters i had seen on the train. I don`t know enough about art to really talk about or describe the exhibition... but i loved it. Really really loved it. The painter, Kawanabe Kyosai, was obviously a very interesting bloke who loved his sake.

The paintings were in a kind of ukiyo-e style but with lots of little ghosts, demons, blood and other funny stuff including a great painting that went by the name of "Fart Battle". Let me be lazy and just plagiarise from the museums website... "The Japanese catch phrase for the exhibition might be translated, "His works are so bizarre, they'll make you want to cry." Be shocked and surprised to discover both the bizarre and the beautiful in this artist's stunning repertoire."

A massive stage curtain that he painted for some theater company. apparently he did it in under 4 hours.

It was a very entertaining afternoon and if possible i recommend you try and visit, you may even see little old me there because i`m thinking about going back!

GWS... in love with the art world again!!