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Rinpa school. Spring Landscape, unknown Rinpa school painter, 18th century, six-screen ink and gold on paper. Rinpa (琳派, Rinpa) is one of the major historical schools of Japanese painting. It was created in 17th century Kyoto by Hon'ami Kōetsu (1558–1637) and Tawaraya Sōtatsu (d. c.1643). Roughly fifty years later, the style was ...
Rinpa school. Ogata Kōrin (Japanese: 尾形光琳; 1658 – June 2, 1716) was a Japanese landscape illustrator, lacquerer, painter, and textile designer of the Rinpa School. [1][2] Kōrin is best known for his byōbu folding screens, such as Irises [3] and Red and White Plum Blossoms [4] (both registered National Treasures), and his paintings ...
Rinpa school. Hon'ami Kōetsu ( Japanese: 本阿弥 光悦; 1558 – 27 February 1637) was a Japanese calligrapher, craftsman, lacquerer, potter, landscape gardener, connoisseur of swords and a devotee of the tea ceremony. His works are generally considered to have inspired the founding of the Rinpa school of painting. Robert Hughes of Time ...
Tawaraya Sōtatsu (俵屋 宗達, c. 1570 – c. 1640) was a Japanese furniture designer and painter of the Rinpa school.. Sōtatsu is best known for his decorations of calligraphic works by his partner Hon'ami Kōetsu (1558–1637), [1] and his spectacular and highly influential byōbu folding screens, such as National Treasures Wind God and Thunder God [2] and his painting of the Sekiya and ...
Movement. Rinpa school. Suzuki Kiitsu (Japanese: 鈴木其一, 1796–1858) was a Japanese painter of the Rinpa school. A student of the famous painter Sakai Hoitsu (1761–1828), [1] he was for a long time considered a minor member of Rinpa school of Japanese painting. [2] In recent years his work has been reevaluated and gained recognition ...
The work is considered exemplary of the Rinpa school that Kōrin cofounded. [3] Square lattice patterns throughout the composition have led to the assumption the painting was made with a lower layer of silver and gold leaf. [4] The lower layers of the painting have a gold colour that was assumed to have been achieved with gold leaf.
Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716) was a major Japanese painter, lacquerer and designer, and an important member of the Rinpa school, particularly famous for his byōbu screens, his paintings on ceramics and lacquerware produced by his brother Ogata Kenzan, and for consolidating the style of the founding Rinpa master, Kōetsu and Sōtatsu. [1]
Irises. screen. Irises (紙本金地著色燕子花図, shihonkinji chakushoku kakitsubata-zu) is a pair of six-panel folding screens (byōbu) by the Japanese artist Ogata Kōrin of the Rinpa school. It depicts an abstracted view of water with drifts of Japanese irises (Iris laevigata).