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Ogata Kōrin (尾形光琳, 1658 – 1716)

Ogata Kōrin

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Red Prunus on a pair of screens
Ogata Kōrin (尾形光琳?, 1658 – June 2, 1716) was a Japanese painter of the Rinpa school.[1]

Early life[edit]

Kōrin was born in Kyoto, to a wealthy merchant who had a taste for the arts and is said to have given his son some elementary instruction therein. Kōrin also studied under Soken Yamamoto, the Kanō schoolTsunenobu and Gukei Sumiyoshi, and was greatly influenced by his predecessors Hon'ami Kōetsu and Tawaraya Sōtatsu.

Career[edit]

Kōrin broke away from all tradition and developed a very original and distinctive style of his own, both in painting and in the decoration of lacquer. The characteristic of this is a bold impressionism, which is expressed in few and simple highly idealized forms, with an absolute disregard for naturalism and the usual conventions. In lacquer, Kōrin's use of white metals and of mother-of-pearl is notable; but here he followed Honami Kōetsu.
An artist of the Rinpa school, he is particularly known for his gold-foil folding screens. A screen in the Museum of Fine Arts, Bostondepicting Matsushima is a particularly famous work, and his "Irises" in the Nezu Museum is a National Treasure of Japan.
Korin died at the age of 59. His chief pupils were Kagei Tatebayashi and Shiko Watanabe, but the present knowledge and appreciation of his work are largely due to the efforts of Sakai Hōitsu, who brought about a revival of Kōrin's style.

Selected works[edit]

Irises screen by Ogata Kōrin
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Kōrin,OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 200+ works in 300+ publications in 8 languages and 3,000+ library holdings.[2]
  • 光琳畫譜 (1801)
  • 光琳百圖 (1868)
  • 光琳 (1940)
  • 国宝紅白梅図屏風 (1955)
  • 光琳 (1965)

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