Reverberations of Taiga, Volume 2 (leaf 17)
1704
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1704
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Reverberations of Taiga, Volume 2 (leaf 17) is a 1704 by Aoki Shukuya, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows rocks, trees, and mountains in simple ink lines. It's interesting because the artist was a pupil of a famous painter. The artist learned by copying their master's work to practice techniques like chiaroscuro, which is an art technique using strong contrasts of light and dark. You can see more works like this by visiting the museum: The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Traditionally, young painters in Japan began their studies with an established master-painter. The master's compositions invariably became models that the apprentice copied to learn various ink and brush techniques. Shukuya was a pupil of the famous Kyoto artist Ikeno Taiga, whose style is reflected in these sketches of rocks, trees, and mountains.
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