| schema:description 9 | "measurements: Painting only: 174.6 x 67.3 cm (68 3/4 x 26 1/2 in.)" |
| schema:description | "culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)" |
| schema:description | "technique: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper" |
| schema:description | "type: Painting" |
| schema:description | "tombstone: Snow Landscape, c. 1770s. Yosa Buson (Japanese, 1716-1783). Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; painting only: 174.6 x 67.3 cm (68 3/4 x 26 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.111...(more)" |
| schema:description | "collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll" |
| schema:description | "wall_description: Buson is recognized in Japanese literary history as one of the country's greatest poets. He was also an accomplished painter who revolutionized the 18th-century "scholar-painting" school by introducing new subject matter and a more personalized brush style. Like most literati painters who were schooled in the Chinese classics, his early paintings invariably depicted historical subjects in a precise manner. By the 1770s, however, he developed a looser, more expressive brush manner distinctly his own. Although undated, the painting's exuberant style suggests that this snow scene dates from that time. One of the artist's seals reads: "flung ink gives life to brush lines."...(more)" |
| schema:description | "id: 159739" |
| schema:description | "creditline: Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry" |
