01-03-2006, 11:35 PM
It's at the Asian Art Museum and I'm a member so I darted in 15 minutes before closing before the New Year's Phil show. When I heard about this one, I was disappointed because I wasn't interested, but I'm so glad I saw it, even if I was sprinting to get through it. Most of the paintings are large screens, so it was quite sprintable.
Maruyama Okyo's Dragon and Tiger panels were simply magnificent. They will rotate those out next week, so I feel really lucky that I saw them. There was also a lot of chickens, perhaps for the end of the Year of the Cock, but since Kauai was lousy with wild chickens, these chicken paintings really spoke to me. The best piece to me was Soga Shohaku's Bodhidharma. It had some phrase like 'painted while sobering up' - apparently he was challenged to do this at a drinking party and he nailed it, just dead-on nailed it, an absolute masterpiece probably splashed out in minutes.
I recommend this exhibit highly.
Maruyama Okyo's Dragon and Tiger panels were simply magnificent. They will rotate those out next week, so I feel really lucky that I saw them. There was also a lot of chickens, perhaps for the end of the Year of the Cock, but since Kauai was lousy with wild chickens, these chicken paintings really spoke to me. The best piece to me was Soga Shohaku's Bodhidharma. It had some phrase like 'painted while sobering up' - apparently he was challenged to do this at a drinking party and he nailed it, just dead-on nailed it, an absolute masterpiece probably splashed out in minutes.
I recommend this exhibit highly.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse