Artworks

Rooster, Hen and Hydrangea

Artwork · Itō Jakuchū · c. 1757 · kakemono · Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800), the eldest son of a Kyoto greengrocer, gave the shop to his brother at thirty-nine and devoted his life to painting; after copying Chinese works he kept hens and cocks and drew them from life (shaseiga). Cock, hen and hydrangea are painted with hyper-realism; space is suggested only by superimposing one shape on another. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 323–324, fig. 375. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.