Painting with fan, Moon and Plume Grass by Kamisaka Sekka (1866 - 1942)

Late 19th-first half of the 20th century

Painting with fan, Moon and Plume Grass

Fan-leaf mounted as a kakejiku (hanging scroll), ink, colors, and gold wash on paper, depicting a stand of susuki (plume grass) against the moon, ivory jiku

Signed: Sekka 雪佳 with seal Seisei 青々

Mounting: 143.5 x 68.8 cm Painting: 53 x 17.4 cm 

Provenance:
Patricia Milne-Henderson Collection
Hosomi Museum, Kyoto

Litterature:
Kamisaka Sekka: Rimpa Master - Pioneer of Moder Design,  Kyoto 2003, p.117 n. 48
Murashige Yasushi and Kobayashi Tadashi, Rinpa Painting, Kyoto, Shikōsha, 1989, vol. 2, cat. no. 244

Painter and designer, Kamisaka Sekka has been one of the most important Japanese artists who brought the traditional aesthetic in the western world. Sekka came from a samurai family - his father was in service at the imperial palace in Kyoto - and studied art during a very delicate period of Japanese history: the transition between the old feudal system of the Edo period to the modern capitalistic one of the Meiji restoration. It has been a traumatic era for all Japanese people and it had relevant effects on artists and their works. In fact, they had to choose between “old” and “new”, between “traditional” and “international”. Sekka chooses the road of national traditions and committed himself in all the fields he could. Under the guide of his teacher Kishi Kokei, he decided to follow the art of the Rinpa School, using plain and simple designs: toward the end of 16th century, a group of artists and craftsmen with exceptional skills founded an artistic language based on stylisation in order to reach an absolute and elegant simplicity. Sekka chose this way: he does not consider the new techniques coming from Europe and commit himself to traditional Japanese arts and crafts. The use of space is superb: compositions are often asymmetric but always balanced, with original perspectives and innovative views.  The simplicity of his compositions and his geometric shapes allow certainly to consider Sekka as one of the pioneers of contemporary design.
 

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