Bamboo in the Four Seasons
Bamboo in the Four Seasons | |
---|---|
伝土佐光信筆 四季竹図屏風: Japanese | |
Artist | attributed to Tosa Mitsunobu; Tosa school |
Year | 15th century |
Medium | folding screen |
Movement | Tosa school |
Subject | Bamboo in different stages of growth thru the seasons |
Dimensions | 157 cm × 360 cm (62 in × 140 in) |
Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
Owner | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Accession | 1975.268.44, .45 |
Website | https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/45258 |
Bamboo in the Four Seasons is a late 15th century Japanese folding screen painting spanning six panels, attributed to Tosa Mitsunobu, but definitively within the Tosa school.[1]
Depicting bamboo at different stages of growth throughout the seasons, the piece presents a transitory state, both of the plant, the seasons, as well as that of the evolution of the Tosa school and Muromachi period styles, which adapted the bamboo motif from previous Chinese paintings.[2]
It is currently owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1975.[1]
Description
Bamboo painting has been a common motif in Chinese painting from the Song and Yuan dynasty, depicted thru paintings by Emperor Huizong in the 11th century.[3][4]
One such prominent figure in bamboo painting was painter Li Kan, whose paintings gained prominence as he joined the Yuan Court, and as such wrote treatises on how to paint bamboo.[4]
His style was passed on to his son Li Shixing (1283-1328). Within the first half of the 14th century, intellectual exchange between the Chinese Zen and the Japanese Zen schools intensified, which included the importation, followed by evolution of the painting style amongst the Muromachi elite.[5]
The prominence of an independent style in Japan grew more prominent after the Heian period, with the emergence of Yamato-e, of which the Tosa school became renowned for, while maintaining infusion of ideas from China, a style known as kara-e.[6] Bamboo in the Four Seasons is seen as an early-stage work by the Tosa School.[2]
Japanese influences on Bamboo in the Four Seasons, depicts the transitory state of bamboo growth, from shoots to mature plant in the same space, from spring to winter, seen from right to left, the gold leaf backdrop conveying the concept of space. Impermanence and cycles is a prominent theme by showcasing the life cycle, adapted from Shinto and Buddhist precepts.[6][7]
Over the course of centuries, the Tosa school's aesthetics would be studied and give way to Rinpa school in the Edo period.[2]
Provenance
The time period of Bamboo in the Four Seasons is contemporary to that of the career of Tosa Mitsunobu (1434-1525), though it is uncertain if the painting is attributed to him, even though it was made by the Tosa School.[2]
Efforts to construct the evolution and influences of Tosa school is only recent in scope.[2]
The folding screen would have been a subject of study during the Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo period, thru open study by independent painters, machi-eshi (townsman painters). Observation and study would give way and influence towards Rinpa style, with prominent artists including Tawaraya Sōtatsu.[2]
Owned previously by Yabumoto Shōgorō of Osaka, Bamboo in the Four Seasons would be acquired by art collector Harry G.C. Packard, who would then gift the painting to the MET in 1975. As of today, the panels are under designated accession number 1975.268.44,45.[1]
Prominently rotated as part of MET's permanent collection, the painting has seen special exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Osaka Castle from October-November 1986, as well as an exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art on 16th-century Japanese art in October-December 1991.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d "Attributed to Tosa Mitsunobu | Bamboo in the Four Seasons | Japan | Muromachi period (1392–1573)". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
- ^ a b c d e f Carpenter, John T. (2012). Designing nature: the Rinpa aesthetic in Japanese art [exhibition, Metropolitan museum of art, New York, May 26, 2012 - January 13, 2013]. Metropolitan museum of art. New York New Haven [Conn.] London: Metropolitan museum of art distributed by Yale university press. pp. 11–12. ISBN 978-1-58839-471-2.
- ^ "Emperor Huizong | Finches and bamboo | China | Northern Song dynasty (960–1127)". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
- ^ a b "Li Kan | Bamboo and rocks | China | Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
- ^ Rousmaniere, Nicole Coolidge (29 October 2002). Kazari: Decoration and Display in Japan 15th-19th Centuries Hardcover. Distribution General. pp. 90–91. ISBN 0810967480.
{{cite book}}
: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ a b "Smarthistory – The four seasons in the arts of Japan". smarthistory.org. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
- ^ "Smarthistory – Bamboo in the Four Seasons: painting and poetry in Japan". smarthistory.org. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
- v
- t
- e
The Met Fifth Avenue | |
---|---|
Other sites |
- Amathus sarcophagus
- Bajaur casket
- Burke Jizō
- Pratt Ivories
- Coffin of Nedjemankh
- Cesnola Sphinx Funerary Stele
- Dipylon krater
- Magdeburg Ivories
- Armenian Gospel with Silver Cover
- Calligraphic Galleon
- Carp and Pine
- Chair of Reniseneb
- Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
- Hounds and Jackals
- The Hunt of the Unicorn
- Hunting of Birds with a Hawk and a Bow
- Kettle Drums
- Kneeling Bull with Vessel
- Miniature Altarpiece with the Crucifixion
- Modern Gothic cabinet
- Morgan Casket
- Pair of Incense Boxes in the Shape of Mandarin Ducks
- Pomegranate carved in the round
- Rectangular Octave Virginal
- Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio
- Intan Jizō
- The Triumph of Fame
- Vase with lid
- Woman Seen from the Back
- Statuette of Mercury
- Statuette of the lady Tiye
- Phoenician metal bowls
- 1476 Altarpiece
- A Cavalryman
- A Vase of Flowers (1716)
- The Abduction of Rebecca
- The Accommodations of Desire
- The Actor (painting)
- Adoration of the Magi (Bosch, New York)
- Adoration of the Shepherds (Mantegna)
- The Aegean Sea
- The Afternoon Meal (Luis Meléndez)
- Alexander Hamilton (Trumbull)
- The Allegory of Faith
- Allegory of the Planets and Continents
- Alpine Pool
- Altman Madonna
- America Today
- Ancient Rome (painting)
- Annunciation (Memling)
- Annunziata Polyptych
- Anthony van Dyck self portrait
- Approaching Thunder Storm
- Arab Woman (watercolor)
- Arcadia (painting)
- Ariadne (Giorgio de Chirico)
- Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
- Artillery (Roger de la Fresnaye)
- The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog
- At the Seaside
- Au Lapin Agile
- Autumn Ivy (Ogata Kenzan)
- Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)
- Bamboo in the Four Seasons
- Bache Madonna
- Bain à la Grenouillère
- The Baker's Cart
- The Banks of the Bièvre near Bicêtre
- Banquet in Silence (Marsden Hartley)
- Bashi-Bazouk (Jean-Léon Gérôme)
- A Basket of Clams (Winslow Homer)
- Beauty Revealed
- Black Iris (painting)
- Black Stork in a Landscape
- Boating (Édouard Manet)
- Annunciation (Botticelli, New York)
- Bouquet of Small Chrysanthemums (Léon Bonvin)
- Boy Carrying a Sword
- The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne
- Brigand and His Wife in Prayer
- Bringing Down Marble from the Quarries to Carrara
- The Brioche
- Broadway and 42nd Street
- Broken Eggs
- Burg Weiler Altarpiece
- Butler Madonna
- By the Seashore
- Ca' Dolfin Tiepolos
- The Calm Sea (painting)
- Camouflage Self-Portrait
- Cannon Rock (painting)
- The Card Players
- Catania and Mount Etna
- Cemetery, New Mexico (Marsden Hartley)
- Cervara Altarpiece
- The Chess Players (Eakins painting)
- Children Playing with a Goat
- Christ Carrying the Cross (El Greco, New York)
- Christ Presented to the People (Il Sodoma)
- Christ with a Staff
- Claes Duyst van Voorhout
- Cloudy Mountains
- Coast Guard Station, Two Lights, Maine
- Coast Scene, Isles of Shoals
- The Collector of Prints (Edgar Degas)
- Comtesse de la Châtre
- Captain George K. H. Coussmaker
- Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue
- A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise
- Cows Crossing a Ford
- Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)
- Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych
- Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John
- The Cup of Tea
- Cypresses (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- The Dance Class (Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- The Dancing Class
- The Dead Christ with Angels
- The Death of Harmonia
- The Death of Socrates
- The Defense of Champigny
- Delirious Hem
- The Denial of Saint Peter (Caravaggio)
- Diana and Cupid
- The Dream of Aeneas (Salvator Rosa)
- Dressing for the Carnival
- Madonna and Child (Duccio)
- Egyptian Woman with Earrings
- Egyptians Raising Water from the Nile
- The Empress Elizabeth of Russia on Horseback, Attended by a Page
- Entrance to a Dutch Port
- Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort with Their Tutor and Coachman
- Esther before Ahasuerus (Artemisia Gentileschi)
- Ethel Scull 36 Times
- The Experts (painting)
- The Falls of Niagara
- The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes
- Femme Lisant
- Ferry near Gorinchem
- The Fingernail Test
- Fish Market (Joachim Beuckelaer)
- The Fishing Boat
- Fishing Boats, Key West
- The Five Points (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Florinda (painting)
- The Forest in Winter at Sunset (painting)
- The Fortune Teller (de La Tour)
- Fruit Dish and Glass
- The Funeral (painting)
- Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
- Garden at Sainte-Adresse
- George Washington (Trumbull)
- Gilbert Stuart (Goodridge)
- A Girl Asleep
- Girl with a Cat (Gwen John)
- Glass Blowers of Murano
- Golden Cock and Hen
- A Goldsmith in His Shop, Possibly Saint Eligius
- The Great Sirens
- The Gulf Stream (painting)
- Harlequin with a Guitar
- The Harvest, Pontoise
- The Harvesters (painting)
- Haystacks:Autumn
- Head of Christ (Rembrandt, New York)
- The Heart of the Andes
- The Hermit (Il solitario)
- The Horse Fair
- Houses on the Achterzaan
- I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
- In a Courtyard, Tangier
- The Interior of an Atelier of a Woman Painter (Lemoine)
- Interior with a Young Couple and a Dog
- Irises screen
- Isaac Blessing Jacob (Gerbrand van den Eeckhout)
- Isle of the Dead (painting)
- Italian Hill Town (Arthur B. Davies)
- Jingo-ji Tripiṭaka
- Jo, the Beautiful Irishwoman
- Joy of Life (Valadon)
- Juan Legua
- July Fourteenth, Rue Daunou, 1910
- The Kearsarge at Boulogne
- The Lacemaker (Maes)
- Lachrymae (Frederic Leighton)
- Lady at the Tea Table
- Lady with the Rose (Charlotte Louise Burckhardt)
- Lake George (John Frederick Kensett)
- Landscape with Sky
- The Last Communion of Saint Jerome (Botticelli)
- Lehman Madonna
- Lilacs in a Window
- Lobster Fishermen (Marsden Hartley)
- The Lovesick Maiden
- Lukas Spielhausen
- Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly (Mary Cassatt)
- Madame Élisabeth de France
- Madame Grand (Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun)
- Madonna and Child (Bellini, New York, 1485–1490)
- Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints (Raphael)
- Magdalene with Two Flames
- The Maidservant
- Maine Coast
- Majas on a Balcony
- Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga
- The Marriage of the Virgin (Michelino da Besozzo)
- The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara (Lucas Cranach the Elder)
- The Masquerade Dress
- The Matador Saluting
- Max Schmitt in a Single Scull
- Mérode Altarpiece
- Merry company with two men and two women
- Mezzetino (painting)
- The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (painting)
- Miss V Dressed as a Bullfighter
- Model by the Wicker Chair
- Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley
- Moonlight, Wood Island Light
- Morning, An Overcast Day, Rouen
- Moses Striking the Rock
- Mother and Child (Cassatt)
- Mountain Stream (John Singer Sargent)
- Mountain with Red House
- Movement No. 5, Provincetown Houses
- Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes
- Mrs. Atkinson (Gwen John)
- Mrs. Beckington (Alice Beckington)
- Mrs. Hugh Hammersley
- The Musician (Bartholomeus van der Helst painting)
- A Musician and His Daughter
- The Musicians (Caravaggio)
- Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine (Memling)
- Nativity scenes attributed to Zanobi Strozzi
- Night-Shining White
- Northeaster (painting)
- Nude Before a Mirror
- Oedipus and the Sphinx
- Old Trees, Level Distance
- Pity (William Blake)
- Portrait of Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc
- Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
- American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
- AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion
- Before Yesterday We Could Fly
- Camp: Notes on Fashion
- China: Through the Looking Glass
- Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire
- Fashion and History: A Dialogue
- Glitter and Doom
- Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination
- In America: A Lexicon of Fashion
- In America: An Anthology of Fashion
- Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years
- Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Centennial
- The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
- The Pictures Generation
- Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons Art of the In-Between
- Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy
- Te Maori
- Vessel Orchestra