Leonard Koren

Leonard Koren (born January 4, 1948) is an American artist, aesthetics expert and writer.

Leonard Koren was born in New York City in 1948, and raised in Los Angeles.

In 1969, he co-founded the Los Angeles Fine Arts Squad, a mural painting group.

In 1976, Koren founded WET Magazine – a periodical dedicated to gourmet bathing,[2] which was influential in the development of postmodern aesthetics.

[3] In 1981, WET magazine ceased publication, and Koren moved to Japan, where he wrote several works on aesthetics.

Leonard Koren in San Francisco, 1985
This Zen garden of Ryōan-ji demonstrates the aesthetic of wabi-sabi . It was built during the Higashiyama period