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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Zhang Hongtu
Zhang Hongtu’s Ongoing Shan Shui series explores categories of “East” and “West” in a distinctive way, reflecting his own life lived in two cultures. Here, he reimagines an album leaf […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Sun Yi
This joyful, exuberant painting is an example of the rich vocabulary of auspicious symbols in Chinese art. The combination here of flowering peonies with pink crabapple and white magnolia blossoms, […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Korean Cup
One of the finest objects in our Korean art collection is one of the smallest, at only 4 inches high. This exquisite celadon cup forms the shape of an open […]
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CommunityDiscoverLearnArt and Writing During the Pandemic: Celebrating the Write Around Portland Partnership
It has been more than one year since Write Around Portland and the Portland Art Museum began collaborating on weekly, art-inspired writing prompts to sustain our souls and our sense […]
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![[Image description: Arbre (Tree), Minami Keiko, 11 7/16 x 11 7/16 inches, color etching and aquatint on paper. A square print depicting a highly stylized landscape featuring a large tree, a cloud, and a partial sun. The large tree begins at center bottom, its thick trunk rising and splitting into a wide V shape. The black bark is depicted as short vertical dashes grouped and layered at the trunk’s sides to convey depth. In the space left by the V-shaped branches are three oversized leaves placed side by side. The one in the middle has a pointed top while the other two have rounded tops. They are larger than the tree’s trunk and are composed of a multitude of smaller etched leaves over vertical dashes. Enveloping the large leaves and the upper branches is a muted green shape resembling a circle with the top edge depressed into itself. The circle contains more vertical black dashes. A line drawing of a bird is perched on the top right of the green shape. Above, a thin cloud composed of horizontal dashes appears. Just off center at upper left, a half circle resembling a partial sun is composed of concentric dashes. The background is a pale gray and resembles woven fabric.]](https://portlandartmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Minami-Keiko-904x565.jpg)
Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Minami Keiko
Minami Keiko’s etchings offer the magic of fairy tale-like, narrative settings. Her fine touches on the printing plate and understated colors result in delicate, sometimes whimsical scenes. For me, she […]
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CommunityDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Fujikasa Satoko
Even though the official start of spring is still a week away, we can feel the shift in the season. This piece by Fujikasa Satoko feels like a perfect embodiment […]
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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Azechi Umetarō
Titles offer insight into an artist’s vision and add layers of meaning to an artwork. Japanese printmaker Azechi Umetarō often took inspiration from his experiences mountaineering, as we see in […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Kitao Shigemasa
This print is one of 12 split-screen compositions that represent each month of the year. Much like writing resolutions or eating black-eyed peas, The First Month shows activities associated with […]
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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Katsumata Chieko
The arrival of a new year gives us an opportunity to pause, to set intentions, to be open to the expanse of time and space all around us. This piece […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Keisai Eisen
In 2021, the Year of the Ox begins. 1829 was also an ox year. Poets in Mino province commissioned the artist Keisai Eisen to design this special print to commemorate […]
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CommunityLearnJeannie Kenmotsu, Ph.D., appointed as Asian Art Curator of Portland Art Museum
The Portland Art Museum is pleased to announce that Jeannie Kenmotsu, Ph.D., has been appointed as The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Asian Art. Dr. Kenmotsu, who joined the […]
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ConnectDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Miyashita Zenji
As we move towards the winter solstice and our nights continue to lengthen, we are exploring the gifts and challenges of the darkness, along with the expectant hope of the […]