Ogata Kōrin — Cranes in Blue | Rinpa School Print

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Ogata Kōrin — Cranes in Blue | Rinpa School PrintOgata Krin (16581716) was the supreme master of the Rinpa school Japan's most decorative and design forward artistic tradition and the artist whose cranes, waves, and blossoming plum trees became the defining images of Edo period Japanese aesthetics. Trained in the Statsu tradition, he worked in painting, lacquer, and textile design, producing compositions of bold simplicity, flat colour, and exquisite pattern. His crane motif is one of the most

His bold geometric compositions — horizontal lines

held in the Library of Congress

His later pastels and paintings

the French Impressionist study of modern life

and his AM and Lis exhibition pieces — are among the most sought-after prints of the European avant-garde

he developed a style of tender informality — childlike in the best sense — that stands apart from both the formal bijinga tradition and the more abstract tendencies of mid-century Sōsaku-hanga

economical in form

Nastaliq — each with its own regional character and aesthetic logic

Calligraphy is the supreme art form of Islamic civilisation — the physical embodiment of the Word of God

producing compositions of precise geometric order

and the emerging science of applied design education

he brought exceptional sensitivity to light

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