BIRDS & FLOWERS IN ART A VISUAL SONG OF COLOR Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes! William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads Japanese artist Ito Jakuchu (1715-1800) created the incomparable 30 panel silk scroll master work, Colorful Realm of Living Beings, during the Edo period. The personal and expressive Lyrical Ballads* of English poet William Wordsworth […]
This fifth and final installment of the Colorful Realm of Living Beings, that closed yesterday at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., features a subject quite different from the bird and flower silk scrolls of the previous blogs. For Ito Jakuchu, the creator of this dazzling 30 work masterpiece, also captured the […]
Old Pine Tree and White Phoenix, along with the 29 other silk scrolls of the Colorful Realm of Living Beings, is now showing at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Ito Jakuchu (1715-1800) is the artist and the phoenix he depicted below represented a special creative challenge. For according to Jakuchu: “Flowers, […]
Peonies and Small Birds is another of the fabulous 30 silk scroll set, Colorful Realm of Living Beings, by the eighteenth century Japanese master Ito Jakuchu, now on exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. One of the artist’s seals found on Peonies and Small Birds is inspired by the words […]
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