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Folding Screen
Friday, August 17, 2018
I had a thought last week at the Metropolitan Museum's Poetry of Nature exhibit of Edo Paintings. A most basic, untutored thought, but of interest to me. Standing before a folding screen, on which was mounted Cranes and Pines, a work in ink and light color by Ogata Kōrin (1658-1716). That a screen is a stylized geometry of the effects of landscape. The sense one has, looking, that a curve of trees comes forward, that water both widens and recedes to the distance. These effects are considered and commented upon by the [...] more
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