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Contemporary Japanese Folding screen
Japanese four-panel folding screen, also known as a by?bu. It features a painting of irises and grasses on a gold leaf background.
Artwork Details
Type: This is a by?bu (folding screen), traditionally used as room dividers or to define spaces indoors.
Subject: The painting depicts Japanese irises (kakitsubata) and wild grasses on a background made of applied gold leaf squares.
Style and Period: The use of gold leaf and the abstracted style of the irises is characteristic of the Japanese Rinpa school of painting. The artwork is similar to, and possibly influenced by, the iconic "Irises" screens by the celebrated Edo period artist Ogata K?rin (c. 1701–1705). Other similar pieces date to the Showa or Meiji periods.
Technique: The flowers are painted using ink and natural color pigments (such as powdered azurite for the blue) without ink outlines, a technique called mokkotsu.
Materials: The painting is typically on paper or silk and set within a lacquered wood frame.
The artistic composition is often inspired by an episode from The Tales of Ise, an ancient collection of poems and narratives, where the sight of irises inspires a poet. |
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