Ohara koson woodblock prints
Ohara Koson
Japanese painter and printmaker
In this Japanese name, the surname is Ohara.
Ohara Koson (also Ohara Hōson, Ohara Shōson) (Kanazawa Tokyo ) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at the forefront of shinsaku-hanga and shin-hanga art movements.[1]
Ohara Koson was famous as a master of kachō-e (bird-and-flower) designs.
Throughout a prolific career, in which he created around prints, he went by three different titles: Ohara Hōson (小原豊邨), Ohara Shōson (小原祥邨) and Ohara Koson.[2]
Biography
He was born Ohara Matao; it is thought that he started training in painting and design at the Ishikawa Prefecture Technical School in He also studied painting with Suzuki Kason (–), although accounts differ on whether this happened during his school years or after he moved to Tokyo in the middle to late s.
Bird pictures by koson ohara images Kacho-e by Ohara Koson. Some of Ohara's more famous works include Crow on a Snowy Branch c. Title Goose and the Moon. Title Blue Bird on a Plum Tree.In Tokyo, he produced some ukiyo-etriptychs illustrating episodes of the Russo-Japanese War, but most of his production was prints of birds-and-flowers (kachō-e).[3][4] He worked at first with publishers Akiyama Buemon (Kokkeidō) and Matsuki Heikichi (Daikokuya), signing his work Koson.
Starting around , he became associated with the publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō, and signed his work Shōson. He also worked with the publisher Kawaguchi, signing his works Hōson.
Through his association with Watanabe, Ohara's work was exhibited abroad, and his prints sold well, particularly in the United States.
Bird pictures by koson ohara Little is definitively known about the artist's life. Title Owl and Crescent Moon. His work has only recently received attention in his native Japan following the discovery of important reference material including original sketches and paintings for his prints. Over the course of his career, he underwent name changes, being known as Shoson and Hoson.He was active designing prints until at least , and died at his home in Tokyo in
His work is held in several museums worldwide, including the Toledo Museum of Art,[3] the Brooklyn Museum,[5] the British Museum,[6] the University of Michigan Museum of Art,[7] the Chazen Museum of Art,[8] the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[9] the Harvard Art Museums,[10] the Rijksmuseum,[11] the Carnegie Museum of Art,[12] the Saint Louis Art Museum,[13] the Indianapolis Museum of Art,[4] the Museum of New Zealand,[14] the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia,[15] the Birmingham Museum of Art,[16] the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art,[17] and the Clark Art Institute.[18]
The Manggha museum in Krakow, Poland held a large retrospective in from the collection of Romanian musical artist Adrian Ciceu, brother of Eugen Cicero.[19][20]
Gallery
Wagtail and Lotus, between and , woodblock print, × cm.
Brooklyn Museum
Cawing crow, c. s
Cat and Bowl of Goldfish,
Crow and Blossom, c.
Five Egrets Descending in Snow, c.s
Blue Irises, date unknown
Siberian Blue Nightingale near a peony under a snowy sheaf, cc
Sumō-wrestling toads, c.
Scops Owl, Cherry Blossoms, and Moon,
Heron at full moon
References
- Amy Reigle Newland, Jan Perree & Robert Schaap.Bird pictures by koson ohara movie Ohara Shoson Koson was a Meiji-era painter and kacho-e bird and flower print artist born in in Kanazawa Prefecture. Try Artist Alert. It's important to credit Watanabe's artisans for the precision in carving and printing. Maclean came up with the concept of a retrospective survey of the first decade of shin hanga , imagining one such show every five years.
Koson Ohara - Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, "Crows, Cranes & Camellias. The Natural World of Ohara Koson Japanese Prints from the Jan Perree Collection". Leiden: Hotei Publishing, ISBNX.
- Shimizu, Hisao The Publisher Watanabe Shozaburo and the Birth of Shin-Hanga in Water and Shadow: Kawase Hasui and Japanese Landscape Prints edited by Kendall Brown, Hotei Publishing, ISBN
External links
Media related to Ohara Koson at Wikimedia Commons