Diptychon zwei Pferde | Kanō Hōgai 狩野芳崖 (signiert mit Shōkai 勝海) | 1828-1888 Bambus Trotz aller botanischen Richtigkeit sollte

Trotz aller botanischen Richtigkeit sollte eine Pflanze - hier Bambusstauden – im Bild ein bezaubernder Pinseltanz sein

which probably dates from the first half of the 19th century

barely perceptible but very poetic

he remained fundamentally true to the old aesthetic values and rarely experimented

To develop imagination within this realm is a challenge for a classical painter

Diptychon zwei Pferde | Kanō Hōgai 狩野芳崖 (signiert mit Shōkai 勝海) | 1828-1888 Bambus Trotz aller botanischen Richtigkeit sollteKan Hgai is considered the last great master of the Kan School, which had been the most influential and largest art institution in Japan since the 16th century. Countless masters of Japanese painting emerged from this school whenever a young talent sought further training, they would immediately seek out a Kan master. However, with the end of the Edo period (1603 1867) and the loss of feudal privileges, this school, with its strict motif guidelines,