Letter Enclosing Flowers
1831
17.0 x 384.0 cm
Okada Hankō devoted himself to Confucian studies and painting in the style of Chinese Ming and Qing masters, as had his father, Okada Beisanjin (1744–1820). This letter to a friend, written when the artist was forty-nine, offers a gift of flowers arranged in a Chinese style, a practice cultivated by Japanese literati. The amusing twist: the gift was not actual flowers but flower sketches, executed in a charmingly free manner that reflects the spontaneous, personal quality espoused by Nanga (literati) painters in emulation of Chinese scholar-artists.
okada hankō (1782 – 1846)
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Об этом произведении
- Название: Letter Enclosing Flowers
- Художник: okada hankō
- Год: 1831
- Размер оригинала: 17.0 x 384.0 cm
- Формат: Panoramic
- Правовой статус: Общественное достояние
- Цветовая палитра: Neutrals
- Основной цвет: Driftwood