EXPERIENCE- Lunchtime Lecture: Japanese Aesthetics

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On Oct. 31, Halloween, a lecture was given by Amanda Dalla Villa Adams. The auditorium had much more people than I expected to see. I was sort of dreading the lecture to begin with as we had already had a lecture on Japanese art last year. However as soon as I came I was enraptured by the intricacy that went into the art of wabi-sabi and the other Japanese art forms and how it affected western society as well as how eastern society was affected. My favorite part of the lecture was any time Tanizaki was brought up. I found it interesting how talked about the tragedy of losing the ancient traditions of Japan all while bringing up the new positions of females and males because of this transition. Before this year I must say I did not think much of the wabi-sabi art form often finding it "overrated" however after this lecture and doing my old master project on Mary Cassatt, a western artist who was inspired by wabi-sabi, I must say I have a new appreciation and even reverence for the art form.