{"product_id":"cockatoo-and-pomegranate","title":"Cockatoo and Pomegranate","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eJapanese \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ekachō-e\u003c\/span\u003e, aka “bird-and-flower” pictures like painter and printmaker \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eOhara Koson\u003c\/span\u003e’s \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eCockatoo and Pomegranate\u003c\/span\u003e (our fourth \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eVintage Editions\u003c\/span\u003e release by the artist), were designed to depict an intangible sense of peaceful harmony through balancing the beauty of avian wildlife with something from the natural world. While \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ekachō-e\u003c\/span\u003e imagery is most often literal, sometimes—as in this color woodcut from 1930—the flower element is represented as a fruit or other depiction of nature.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eOhara Koson (1877-1945) was aligned with the \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eshin-hanga\u003c\/span\u003e (“new prints”) movement, which was an early 20th century revival of traditional \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eukiyo-e\u003c\/span\u003e art. Comprised of woodblock prints and paintings addressing both the everyday and the fantastic, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eukiyo-e\u003c\/span\u003e art (meaning “pictures of the floating world”) was wildly popular between the 17th and 19th centuries. In the \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eshin-hanga\u003c\/span\u003e movement, the artist, carver, and printer played distinctly separate but unified roles, as opposed to \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003esosaku-hanga\u003c\/span\u003e (“creative prints”), in which the artist performs all roles and is the sole creator of the work. As with any form of art from a culture as storied and ancient as Japan’s, the lineage of visual languages and approaches in \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eCockatoo and Pomegranate\u003c\/span\u003e runs deep. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eIt is a language Ohara Koson was perhaps more well-versed in than any other \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ekacho-e\u003c\/span\u003e artist: he was famously the most revered, and created around 450 different works in the genre. He was also celebrated for his single-subject work, like \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\"\u003ePeacock\u003c\/span\u003e. In both that work and \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eCockatoo and Pomegranate\u003c\/span\u003e, Koson’s gentle watercolor washes bring softness and light to his feathered subjects, both of whom are fluffy and ethereal. Indeed, one of the aims of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ekacho-e\u003c\/span\u003e artwork was to allude to the seasons themselves, spirituality, and poetry. More directly, flora and fauna featured in the movement’s prints often held overt symbolic meanings. Pomegranates, for instance, have served as symbols of abundance, sensuality and fertility since ancient times. Kishimojin, the Japanese mythological goddess of motherhood and childbirth, is often pictured holding the fruit herself.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ohara Koson","offers":[{"title":"10\"x8\"","offer_id":50493719281773,"sku":"swp1790055574848","price":28.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"14\"x11\"","offer_id":50493719314541,"sku":"qoj1790055574849","price":52.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20\"x16\"","offer_id":50493719347309,"sku":"kuu1790055574850","price":165.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0711\/9532\/8621\/files\/cockatoo-and-pomegranate_1.png?v=1790055583","url":"https:\/\/coffeescale.shop\/products\/cockatoo-and-pomegranate","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}