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拍品專文
Kyosai was apprenticed to Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), then Maemura Towa and Kano Tohaku who was the head of Surugadai Kano School. He mastered his own distinctive style through studying a great variety of paintings including the works by Kano, Tosa, Rimpa, Maruyama-Shijo and Ukiyo-e Schools.
Unlike the method of the Kano school which focused on copying past masters and faithfully following set painting guides, Kyosai’s bird paintings started as ‘sketches from life’. This painting style was inspired by his first teacher, the famous ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 – 1861). Kyosai himself explained to the Australian-born painter Mortimer Menpes that he would ‘spend a whole day in the garden watching a bird and its particular attitude’, and then would recreate its image from memory. The ‘rough style of ink painting’ of this work would have been used by Kyosai to quickly capture his impression of the bird.
Unlike the method of the Kano school which focused on copying past masters and faithfully following set painting guides, Kyosai’s bird paintings started as ‘sketches from life’. This painting style was inspired by his first teacher, the famous ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 – 1861). Kyosai himself explained to the Australian-born painter Mortimer Menpes that he would ‘spend a whole day in the garden watching a bird and its particular attitude’, and then would recreate its image from memory. The ‘rough style of ink painting’ of this work would have been used by Kyosai to quickly capture his impression of the bird.