Category: Flying Pope

• «Flying», (“Pouting Pope”) in homage to Ban’ya Natsuishi’s haiku book “Flying Pope”.

  «Flying», oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm., 2021. Thirteen years after I wrote my preface to Haiku master Ban’ya Natsuishi‘s iconic work «Flying Pope», I have decided to revisit and pay homage to the work in the form of an oil painting.   Commentary: This raw, figurative painting is a significant update (if not…

  Adam Donaldson Powell

  March 27, 2021

  Adam Donaldson Powell as literary critic, Flying Pope, Pope Francis, The Plague Reaper

  Adam Donaldson Powell, Ban’ya Natsuishi, COVID-19 paintings, Flying Pope, Pope Francis, The Plague Reaper