Chrysalis| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Among the Korean artists of the new generation who made their debut after the late 1980s, the female artist Lee Bul is the most highly regarded internationally. Her works deal with the malformed body in which she believes fragility and energy coexist.
Calendar Poster for Qidong Tobacco Co.| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum In the new year period, wood block prints of images of people and patterns representing good fortune are fixed to houses in China as a custom wishing good luck upon the house for the whole year.
The Altar of the Dark Side of Spain| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum In the Philippines, deeply influenced by foreign cultures given its occupation by Spain and other nations, there is a strong movement asking what Filipino culture is, and a desire amongst Filipinos to recount their own history in their own way.
I Love Tienanmen Square, Beijing| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Chinese traditional New Year pictures are used to decorate walls and doors of rooms during the New Year season, and these images of good-luck subjects pasted to the walls are prayers for peace and prosperity in the household in the New Year.
Red Table or Mirage| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum While many contemporary paintings from Mongolia revere the country's natural beauty and the power that is hidden in the landscape, some of the works do show an awareness of contradictions in contemporary society, or provide a reflection on history.
Series 2 No.3| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum During the early 1990s, in the aftermath of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square Incident, young artists in China were seized by a vague sense of despair about their lack of freedom of expression, the conundrums of the social structure, and by their unease about their futures as artists.
Birth of Venus| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum The title'Birth of Venus' brings to mind the Italian painter, Botticelli's work. In this piece the woman wearing a blue wave-pattern burka on a lotus flower, together with the women in lotus-pattern burkas in the four corners are rendered in the fine detail of miniaturist technique.
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