Artworks

Red and White Plum Blossoms

Artwork · Ogata Kōrin · 1710–1716 · byōbu · MOA Museum of Art

A pair of two-panel screens from Ogata Kōrin’s last Kyoto period: a plum on either side of a curving stream whose surface is a series of flat decorative wave patterns in ink and silver; slender branches with small blossoms against angular forms — rich in pattern and contrasts of light and dark against glistening gold. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 315–316, fig. 366. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.