Shibata Zeshin — Butterflies | Japanese Lacquer Art

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Shibata Zeshin — Butterflies | Japanese Lacquer ArtShibata Zeshin (18071891) was Japan's greatest lacquer artist and one of the supreme painters of the Meiji era a master who brought the refined techniques of urushi lacquerwork into paintings, prints, and illustrated books. His works tigers, peonies, butterflies, crows combine the luminous depth of lacquer surfaces with a painterly spontaneity that no Western medium can quite reproduce. Zeshin's prints are prized by collectors of both Japanese and

Nishimura Shigenaga (1697–1756) was one of the key early masters of the Edo-period woodblock print — a printmaker who worked in the period before Harunobu's colour prints and whose compositions laid the formal groundwork for the great flowering of ukiyo-e

exhibited at Bauhaus-era international exhibitions

still life

with its monochrome geometric composition and Bauhaus-influenced typography

technically accomplished depictions of breaking waves and coastal seascapes

Karl Wiener (1901–1949) was an Austrian graphic artist and illustrator whose work spanned modernist abstraction

he created a body of work of extraordinary formal clarity and emotional directness — women

bold outlines and pure colours of Kalighat pat painting

and Shah Jahan in the 16th and 17th centuries — a tradition that fused Persian miniature technique with Mughal naturalism

The finest examples are now held at the Aga Khan Museum

now in the Imperial Household collection) constitute the most detailed

Hotel Room — are among the most recognisable paintings in American art

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