Torii Gate - original
- Manufacturer: Mariusz Szmerdt
- Price: 50.00 Fr.
Torii Gate is an example of a Japanese painting incorporating the sumi-e technique by Mariusz Szmerdt. Painted on rice paper. Signed with hanko stamp.
Sumi-e, also known as suibokuga, is ink painting on a silk or paper base. The roots of the style stem from the Chinese artistic tradition transported to Japan in the era of Kamakura and then naturalized in the Muromachi era. Minimalism of sumi-e, where the shades of ink create the impression of wide space, deep color and chiaroscuro, is formally associated with the aesthetics of the eastern calligraphy, and ideologically with the development of the Zen Buddhism. The themes of the art oscillate between Buddhist hagiography and landscape painting.
B. Kubiak, "Japanese Aesthetics and Art"
Sumi-e, also known as suibokuga, is ink painting on a silk or paper base. The roots of the style stem from the Chinese artistic tradition transported to Japan in the era of Kamakura and then naturalized in the Muromachi era. Minimalism of sumi-e, where the shades of ink create the impression of wide space, deep color and chiaroscuro, is formally associated with the aesthetics of the eastern calligraphy, and ideologically with the development of the Zen Buddhism. The themes of the art oscillate between Buddhist hagiography and landscape painting.
B. Kubiak, "Japanese Aesthetics and Art"
