cma-japanese-art: Puppies, Sparrows and Chrysanthemums, Nagasawa Rosetsu, 1754, Cleveland Museum of
cma-japanese-art: Puppies, Sparrows and Chrysanthemums, Nagasawa Rosetsu, 1754, Cleveland Museum of Art: Japanese ArtRosetsu is regarded as one of the most versatile painters of 18th-century Japan. He studied in Kyoto, Japan’s cultural capital, and enjoyed a successful career as an independent artist rather than as a more conservative “school” artist. Originally, these four paintings were mounted on the wall panels (fusuma) used to define room spaces in traditional Japanese interior settings. The light wood panels slide along grooves, allowing interior spaces to change with minimal effort. The round circular areas in the paintings’ paper surfaces, each surrounded by a dark halo of embedded dirt and finger oils indicate the location of the door “catches.”Size: Overall: 211.4 x 94 cm (83 ¼ x 37 in.); Painted surface: 167.6 x 91.5 cm (66 x 36 in.)Medium: fusuma panels mounted as hanging scrolls; ink and slight color on paperhttps://clevelandart.org/art/1970.71.1 -- source link