Vase of Flowers with Grasshopper, Marine Life, and Garden Rock
1804
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1804
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Vase of Flowers with Grasshopper, Marine Life, and Garden Rock is a 1804 unspecified by Okabe Ko, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a vase with flowers, a grasshopper, and other objects like marine life and a garden rock. The artist carefully observed these objects from nature. This was a new approach in Japanese art during the Meiji period. Artists started to study Western science and portray the natural world in detail. You can see similar attention to detail in the work of artist Okabe Ko.
A great interest in Western scientific studies developed in Japan during the late Edo period (1615-1868) and into the Meiji era (1868-1912). One outcome of this phenomenon in the visual arts was the detailed portrayal of plant, animal, and marine life. This painting is an assemblage of objects carefully observed from nature, but not usually seen together.
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