Ivan Bilibin was a 20th Century Russian illustrator who was inspired throughout his life by two of my favourite things: Slavic folkore and Japanese prints:
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My day in London was good fun, Ruth and I went to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition in the morning which was very good, I think I preferred last year’s overall but some of the entries were still fairly stunning. Steve Winter’s winning piece was very very good and the junior category made me feel suitably inadequate.
After lunch we went to the Kuniyoshi exhibition which was also very good, though had slightly more penis than I was expecting. My new favourite piece of his is this one:
(btw if anyone’s feeling a little flush my birthday’s just around the corner…)
Toying with the idea of heading to London next week to see a few friends and the Kuniyoshi exhibition is definitely swaying me.
He’s my second favourite student of the Utagawa school (after Hiroshige) and I think the chance to see 150 of his works is well worth eight and a half pounds of my hard-earned cash.
