East meets West meets East meets West.

Erotic Contemporientalism, re-interpreting traditionsl Japanese Ukiyo-e, Shunga and Western Cartoons.

Ukiyo-e and Shunga was Central to forming the West’s perception of Japanese Art in the late 19th Century, From the 1870s Japonisme (a term coined by French art critic Phillippe Burty) became a prominent trend which influenced European Art From Impressionists to Art Nouveau.

With Japornism, Reynolds and Rose take this blending of Cultures somewhere else entirely, mixing Ukiyo-e and Shunga in a humorous pop art fashion using western cartoon characters.

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