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With its almost whimsical treatment of the animal, this work resembles Korean tiger paintings of the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910); however, the loose, free brushwork is more characteristic of Japanese renditions of the subject. The artist, Meisō, was almost certainly a Japanese monk-painter.
In Japan, artists depicted twinned dragons and tigers on the sliding doors of Zen Buddhist temples. And like the Christian story of Saint Jerome and his lion, Buddhists believed that tigers...
Ganku 岸駒 (1749 – January 19, 1839), or more formally Kishi Ku, was a leading Japanese painter of Kyoto and founder of the Kishi school of painting. He is famous for his paintings of tigers.
Ganku became famous for his meticulously brushed paintings of tigers. He first studied Kano-style painting and then mastered the more naturalistic manner espoused by the Chinese painter Shen Nanpin (Shen Quan, 1682–1758) as well as by artists of the Maruyama-Shijō school.
10 sty 2009 · Untamed Beauty: Tigers in Japanese Art presents paintings by 21 Japanese artists, many of whom are among the most famous painters of the last 300 years. Tigers are not indigenous to Japan, but their absence spurred fanciful ideas about their nature and physical form.
A wild tiger has climbed onto a jagged outcrop of rock and bares its teeth in a ferocious snarl. Gan Ku could not have seen a live tiger and worked from a preserved skin in his collection, hence the strangely flattened head.
Tigers as a subject for painting became popular among Japanese artists as early as the 15th century when Chinese examples were brought to Japan. Within Zen monasteries, they became symbols of...
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