A Closer Look: Episode 5 - Kathleen Olive on Ogata Kōrin's iris screens in Tokyo's Nezu Museum
In the seveenteenth and eighteenth centuries, while Japan remained more or less closed to international influence, artists developed highly sophisticated art forms and styles to attract the local market. Later, when foreign traders arrived to export them in great numbers, such works would have an enormous impact on Western artists from Monet to Whistler and Van Gogh. There's perhaps no more influential, or beautiful, work than Ogata Kōrin's stunningly simple iris screens, as introduced by Dr Kathleen Olive in this episode of A Closer Look. If you're not heading to the Nezu Museum in May (when they're typically on display), we highly recommend looking at them in all their glory online. Left-hand screen: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/KORIN-Irises-L.jpg Right-hand screen: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/KORIN-Irises-R.jpg
In the seveenteenth and eighteenth centuries, while Japan remained more or less closed to international influence, artists developed highly sophisticated art forms and styles to attract the local market. Later, when foreign traders arrived to export them in great numbers, such works would have an enormous impact on Western artists from Monet to Whistler and Van Gogh. There's perhaps no more influential, or beautiful, work than Ogata Kōrin's stunningly simple iris screens, as introduced by Dr Kathleen Olive in this episode of A Closer Look. If you're not heading to the Nezu Museum in May (when they're typically on display), we highly recommend looking at them in all their glory online. Left-hand screen: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/KORIN-Irises-L.jpg Right-hand screen: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/KORIN-Irises-R.jpg