Falcon on a Willow
1780
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
About the artist
1780
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Falcon on a Willow is a 1780 by Isoda Koryūsai, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a falcon perched on a willow branch in this painting. The technique used here is interesting. It involves carving a wooden block and using damp paper to create the design. The paper is then hand colored, leaving white lines and areas. This traditional technique is similar to methods used by others who work with wood blocks and hand coloring, and to learn more, you can look into the technique of chiaroscuro.
The technique here is marked by white lines and areas set against a dark background. Damp paper was placed on a carved wooden block and pressed into the engraved incisions. The paper was then hand colored, the sunken areas remaining white and appearing in reserve against the colored background. The effect is meant to resemble a stone rubbing, a traditional technique in China used to reproduce and preserve images on monuments on paper.
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