Poppies and Morning Glories (Translation)
芥子図 江戸時代 酒井抱一筆 絹本着色 (Primary Title)
painted scroll (Object Name)
Sakai Hoitsu, Japanese, 1761 – 1829 (Artist)
This composition shows elegant and stunning images of poppies and morning glories, each grown from a single stalk. Morning glories usually bloom each day in the morning and fade away in several hours, but the artist in this work captured a momentary glimpse both visually dazzling and startlingly realistic.
Sakai Hoitsu is an important artist of Rimpa school painting. Born into an eminent samurai family, Hoitsu studied a broad range of painting styles in Kyoto. In 1797 at the age of thirty-six, he renounced his inheritance and became a Buddhist priest. In seclusion for the next twenty years, he devoted himself to the study of the works of artist Ogata Korin (1658-1716) and became a noted advocate for the revival of Korin's decorative style. The organic shapes and the delicacy of color in this work reveal Hoitsu's botanical study of the subjects and his indebtedness to Korin's sense of design.
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