Suzuki Kiitsu. Suzuki Kiitsu was a Japanese painter of the Rinpa school.
A student of the famous painter Sakai Hoitsu, he was for a long time considered a minor member of Rinpa school of Japanese painting. In recent years his work has been reevaluated and gained recognition, leading to a series of major exhibitions of his art in 2016-2017 in Tokyo, Hyogo and Kyoto.
Kiitsu is best known for his byobu folding screens, often a reinterpretation of screens by other Rinpa artists, such as his massive Wind God and Thunder God following Tawaraya Sotatsu, Ogata Korin and Hoitsu. But he has been most acclaimed for his original screens, including his famed Morning Glories and Mountain Stream in Summer and Autumn.
He was also a notable master with many pupils. Although he was not the official successor of Hoitsu's school, he trained himself many of the Edo Rinpa artists.
This has sometimes been labeled as the Kiitsu school of Edo Rinpa. Mountain Stream in Summer and Autumn is a pair of six-panel byobu folding screens made by Kiitsu using ink and color on gold-foiled paper. It depicts a scene of mountain streams flowing through cypress groves highlighted by lilies and a cherry tree with a few red autumn leaves but the effect of the screens has been described as somehow strangely unreal and a feeling of almost hyperrealism. Another features noted in relation with Korin's Irises screens includethe rhythmica
A student of the famous painter Sakai Hoitsu, he was for a long time considered a minor member of Rinpa school of Japanese painting. In recent years his work has been reevaluated and gained recognition, leading to a series of major exhibitions of his art in 2016-2017 in Tokyo, Hyogo and Kyoto.
Kiitsu is best known for his byobu folding screens, often a reinterpretation of screens by other Rinpa artists, such as his massive Wind God and Thunder God following Tawaraya Sotatsu, Ogata Korin and Hoitsu. But he has been most acclaimed for his original screens, including his famed Morning Glories and Mountain Stream in Summer and Autumn.
He was also a notable master with many pupils. Although he was not the official successor of Hoitsu's school, he trained himself many of the Edo Rinpa artists.
This has sometimes been labeled as the Kiitsu school of Edo Rinpa. Mountain Stream in Summer and Autumn is a pair of six-panel byobu folding screens made by Kiitsu using ink and color on gold-foiled paper. It depicts a scene of mountain streams flowing through cypress groves highlighted by lilies and a cherry tree with a few red autumn leaves but the effect of the screens has been described as somehow strangely unreal and a feeling of almost hyperrealism. Another features noted in relation with Korin's Irises screens includethe rhythmica
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