Within its diverse body of expression, certain characteristic elements seem to be recurrent: adaptation of other cultures, respect for nature as a model, humanization of religious iconography, and appreciation for material as a vehicle of meaning.

The Japanese art includes a wide range of styles and means of expression, including ceramics, sculpture, painting and calligraphy on silk and paper, the ukiyo-e woodblock prints, origami and, more recently, manga along with a myriad of other types of artwork.

The subject matter that is widely regarded as most characteristic of Japanese painting, and later printmaking, is the depiction of scenes from everyday life and narrative scenes that are often crowded with figures and detail.

Many of the Japanese art and antiquities have survived several centuries. They are considered valuable antiques today due to their historical and artistic significance.

The highly refined traditional arts of Japan include such forms as the tea ceremony, calligraphy, and ikebana (flower arranging) and gardening, as well as architecture, painting, and sculpture.

1. Takashi Murakami is undoubtedly Japan’s most successful artist working today. Sometimes called “the Warhol of Japan”, Murakami is world-famous for his Superflat movement, whose cartoon-Pop aesthetic and commercial bent defines his entire oeuvre of paintings and sculptures.

Eiichiro Oda

The best-selling artists by number of singles sold are AKB48 (50.8 million), B’z (35.8 million) in second place, Mr. Children (28.45 million) in third place, and Southern All Stars (25.179 million) in fourth place.

Some of The Most Famous Artists Of All Time

• Andy Warhol.
• Pablo Picasso.
• Vincent van Gogh.
• Leonardo da Vinci.
• Michelangelo.
• Henri Matisse.
• Jackson Pollock.
• Edvard Munch.

Confirmed: The Oldest Known Art in the World Is Spray-Painted Graffiti. The first paintings ever made by human hands, new research suggests, were outlines of human hands. And they were created not in Spain or France, but in Indonesia.

Pablo Picasso

Cubism derived its name from remarks that were made by the critic Louis Vauxcelles, who derisively described Braque’s 1908 work Houses at L’Estaque as being composed of cubes.

1. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon – Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso is perhaps the most famous painter of the 20th century with a number of popular works that are widely considered to be masterpieces—especially in the cubist style of painting.

Cubism can be seen to have developed in two distinct phases: the initial and more austere analytical cubism, and a later phase of cubism known as synthetic cubism. Analytical cubism ran from 1908–12.

Georges Braque’s Mandora (1909-1910) is a famous example of Cubism art from the analytical period – all dark, muted tones and interweaving planes depicting a small lute called a mandora.

Richard Hamilton

Pop art started with the New York artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Claes Oldenburg, all of whom drew on popular imagery and were actually part of an international phenomenon.

Pop Art Today Pop art is essentially a type of art that provides commentary on world events and consumerist culture. While it can be argued that the pop culture movement did not progress past the 1970s, there are elements of pop art that are still present in today’s contemporary art.

Emerging in the mid 1950s in Britain and late 1950s in America, pop art reached its peak in the 1960s. It began as a revolt against the dominant approaches to art and culture and traditional views on what art should be.