Sotatsu Painter
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Sotatsu
A survey of the work of Tawaraya Sotatsu (died ca. 1640), the Japanese painter who founded the historic Rinpa school with designer calligrapher Hon'ami Koetsu (1558-1637). Essays by leading scholars from the United States and Japan focus on Sōtatsu's well-known Waves at Matsushima screens; his collaboration with Koetsu; his varied roles as shopkeeper, compiler, and court painter; and his influence over other artists (the I'nen seal paintings). The book also examines Freer Gallery founder Charles Lang Freer's role in introducing Sōtatsu and Koetsu to the Western world. This is the first time this important artist will be surveyed in the West and provides an opportunity to unite Japanese masterworks with prescient acquisitions of Sōtatsu made by American collectors in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.With 308 illustrations.
Sotatsu
Sōtatsu is a beautifully designed volume celebrating the influential early seventeenth-century Japanese painter Tawaraya Sōtatsu. This book, the first Western survey of this important artist, accompanies the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery exhibition of the same name. Tawaraya Sōtatsu was a commoner who introduced traditional Japanese themes and subjects, formerly the sole purview of the aristocracy, to broader audiences. He painted these nationalistic images using a bold, expressive new design style. This characteristic style was further developed and enhanced when he founded the historic Rinpa school with calligrapher Hon'ami Kōetsu; Rinpa works are marked by dramatic, stylized renderings of traditional Japanese themes. Essays by leading scholars from the United States and Japan focus on Sōtatsu's well-known works; his collaboration with Kōetsu; his varied roles as shopkeeper, compiler, and court painter; and his influence over other artists, including Ogata Kōrin, Ogata Kenzan, Sakai Hōitsu, and Suzuki Kiitsu. The book also examines Freer Gallery of Art founder Charles Lang Freer's role in introducing Sōtatsu and Kōetsu to the Western world. Sōtatsu is a must-have book for museumgoers, Japanophiles, art lovers, and scholars.
Critical Perspectives on Classicism in Japanese Painting
Author: Elizabeth Lillehoj
language: en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date: 2004-01-01
In the West, classical art - inextricably linked to concerns of a ruling or dominant class - commonly refers to art with traditional themes and styles that resurrect a past golden era. Although art of the early Edo period (1600-1868) encompasses a spectrum of themes and styles, references to the past are so common that many Japanese art historians have variously described this period as a classical revival, era of classicism, or a renaissance. How did seventeenth-century artists and patrons imagine the past? Why did they so often select styles and themes from the court culture of the Heian period (794-1185)? Were references to the past something new, or were artists and patrons in previous periods equally interested in manners that came to be seen as classical? How did classical manners relate to other styles and themes found in Edo art? In considering such questions, the contributors to this volume hold that classicism has been an amorphous, changing concept in Japan - just as in the West. Troublesome in its ambiguity and implications, it cannot be separated from the political and ideological interests of those who have employed it over the years. The modern writers who firs