Chrysanthemum and water stream
2018
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34 x 68.90 in
Year
2018
Medium
Drawings
Reference
fcc968c2
Natural pigments, cofun, chinese ink, gold leaf, glue on japanese paper.
1987 Kyoto, Japan
Ryo Shinagawa, born in in Kyoto in 1987, grounds his contemporary paintings in hundreds of years of tradition. From simplicity of Zen Buddhism, to the gold-leafed Rinpa school, Shinagawa brings together disparate elements of Japanese art to discover contemporary meaning for traditional materials and styles.
In his words, “patterns, history, and thought, they are dependent on a given locale and environment.” As he brings centuries of traditional painting into the present, Shinagawa works at the intersection of the history of Japanese art and its future.
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Kyoto, 1F COHJU Bldg., 557 Bisyamon-cho, Nakagyo-ku
Shinagawa is a promising artist that explores new practices in Nihonga, which is a traditional Japanese-style painting and coined in the modern era of Japan to distinguish their own art style from Western-style. Nihonga’s identity in Japan has got lost in the contemporary Japanese art scene, but Shinagawa tries to bring it back to the mainstream, turning a...
