Saturday, 5 August 2017

75 - Chōshun: Beauty in the Snow


Ukiyo-e. Bijinga. Chōshun.
Chōshun: Beauty in the Snow

Miyagawa Chōshun (1683-1753) founded the Miyagawa school. He and his students did not create woodblock prints; they exclusively painted.

This painting is Beauty in the Snow. The composition is typical for certain forms of East Asian art, where emptiness is used as an active element of the composition.