Drinking Festival of the Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup
701
131.0cm x 60.0cm
The Tang dynasty poet Du Fu celebrated eight famous drinkers of his age in his poem Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup (Inchū hassenka). In Nagasawa Rosetsu’s playful rendering of this theme, popular with Japanese painters from the late sixteenth century on, the artist has filled his composition with images of the eight drinkers, creating an almost bazaar-like atmosphere. The brushwork in the signature dances a bit compared with his typical style of signing; this could reflect Rosetsu’s harmonizing of his signature with the giddy mood of the painting. Rosetsu was Maruyama Ōkyo’s student and pursued the carefree life of the literati. Hence he was attracted to the unrestrained lives of the individuals shown in this painting.
O ovom umetničkom delu
- Naslov: Drinking Festival of the Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup
- Umetnik: Nagasawa Rosetsu
- Godina: 701
- Prvobitne dimenzije: 131.0cm x 60.0cm
- Format: Portrait
- Status autorskih prava: Javno vlasništvo
- Paleta boja: Earthy
- Dominantna boja: Rosy Brown