Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture Bedford Arts including acrobats

including acrobats

describing their identifying features

Sir Laurence Olivier

Rua recounts the experiences

Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture Bedford Arts including acrobatsSince the Neolithic era, artisans in East Asia have coated bowls, cups, boxes, baskets, and other utilitarian objects with a natural polymer distilled from the sap of the Rhus verniciflua, known as the lacquer tree. Lacquerware was, and still is, prized for its sheen a lustrous beauty that artists learned to accentuate over the centuries with inlaid gold, silver, mother of pearl, and other precious materials. This tradition has undergone challenges