恐るべし、円山応挙 – Amazing Maruyama Okyo

評判の根津美術館で開催していた円山応挙展に行ってきました。

中でも七難七福図巻の、“難”の処刑シリーズには、度肝を抜かれました。本当に。
日本画って、”静”止画で淡い色彩、

動の中からその一瞬を平坦に切り取った描き方だと思うのですが

静で平坦であるからこそ、その残虐な場面描写が、ただ静かに恐ろし過ぎました。

夢に出てきそう(出てこなくて良かったけど)。
彼はそれらの残酷な光景を実際に写生したに違いないと思います。

鑑賞前ではなく、後に美術館の素敵な日本庭園を散策すれば良かった、と。
広い庭園は高低差があって、とても素敵です。訪れる価値がありますよ。

I went to "Maruyama Okyo: Opening up New terrain in Japanese Painting" @ Nezu Museum this December.

I was so horrified by one of his representative works, Sichinan-Sichifuku-Zu (the 7 misfortunes and 7 fortunes); 7 misfortunes especially, which are terrible & cruel execution scenes drawn by him.  I think a traditional Japanese paining is basically flat and still image using pale colors, cut out of consecutive motions.  So each of his motionless 2-dimensional drawing with details makes the moment much more silently brutal and definitely should be amazing masterpiece by itself.
He must have watched the executions and sketched them actually.

I should have walked the beautiful garden of the museum after that to forget the nightmare...
It is a wide traditional Japanese garden with difference in height scenery worth visiting.

<From Nesu Museum HP>

Maruyama Ōkyo (1733–95) brought about a revolution in the history of Japanese painting through a new style based in realistic sketching from nature. Underlying this realist painting is a level of technical achievement that is at once both transcendent and highly diverse.