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Nature in Monochrome: Birds and Flowers in Japanese Ink
Exhibition February 9 − October 27, 2019
Nature in monochrome: birds and flowers in Japanese ink drawings
Birds and flowers- popular motifs in all types of Japanese art, but it was in the 1300s that Japanese artists began to paint pictures of these objects with ink alone. Artists took up the brush to create small vignettes of nature in shades of black on paper or silk, inspired by Chinese paintings, which were then imported to Japan. The expressive potential of ink means that the popularity of monochrome paintings with birds and flowers has never decreased. This exhibition presents several dozen monochrome paintings of birds and flowers in various formats, from folding fans to folding screens, ranging from the 1400s to the 1700s.
Birds and flowers- popular motifs in all types of Japanese art, but it was in the 1300s that Japanese artists began to paint pictures of these objects with ink alone. Artists took up the brush to create small vignettes of nature in shades of black on paper or silk, inspired by Chinese paintings, which were then imported to Japan. The expressive potential of ink means that the popularity of monochrome paintings with birds and flowers has never decreased. This exhibition presents several dozen monochrome paintings of birds and flowers in various formats, from folding fans to folding screens, ranging from the 1400s to the 1700s.
