Article Itō Jakuchū (1716-1800)

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not to mention that he's responsible for perhaps the best depiction of a Frog in the history of art

I like the two diptychs (and the one after those), tho all of them are interesting. The reds seem a little bold in some, tho that may be due to the aging of colors and not what they were originally.

Some of these make me wonder if he liked mushrooms...

A pair of stunning folding screens, recently discovered, were just revealed as a collaboration between the famous Edo Period artists Ito Jakuchu and Maruyama Okyo (円山応挙, 1733-1795). The screens were unveiled at a press conference in Tokyo on 2 October by the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka. Jakuchu and Okyo were top artists in Kyoto during their time. Folding screens are used to divide and decorate traditional Japanese rooms. The newly found screens, "Chikkei zu byobu" (before 1790) by Jakuchu and "Bairi zu byobu" (1787) by Okyo, are ink paintings on a gold background. Professor Yuji Yamashita from Meiji Gakuin University learned about these screens earlier this year and decided to look closer. By studying the painting styles and signatures, Yamashita concluded that the left panel, with bamboo and roosters, was painted by Jakuchu, while the right panel, with a plum tree and koi, was painted by Okyo.

"Both men painted the subjects they excelled at. I assume the client created the gold folding screens in advance and commissioned the artists to paint them," Yamashita said. Little is known about the relationship between the two artists. Jakuchu was a popular painter, and Okyo valued realism and founded the Maruyama School of Painting. Yamashita said this collaborative work will be an essential clue in learning about their relationship. The folding screens will be displayed at the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, starting in June.

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