Sharaku's lost drawings of sumo-wrestlers

As I lost the editing page for blogger, I rewrite about [lost drawings by Sharaku].

visual grammar (visible grammar): [Who is Sharaku?] Ⅷ syntactic device can Identify who painted (yukihiko-ikumori.blogspot.com)

 

Nine block copies of ”Sumo-e" by　Sharaku have been neglected.

They exist only as photographs because they are lost by the Great kanto Earthquake.

Besides some people think they are fakes.

This time I made better models for [Raiden Kachoyama].

                      Sharaku   [Raiden Kachoyama] 1794-5
Ordinal people who see a picture as illustration fail to enjoy this masterpiece as the main motif is the clothes.

                      arc model

        arc-circle model

There are two ingenious devices.

The same circle is used to make the stripe pattern of the left person's kimono and the outline of the right person's kimono.

The five different circles (orange, blue, green, purple and red brown) intersect at a point (large yellow cross).

These devices remind me of [Osiokuri-hato-tusen-no-zu (Namiura first version)] by Sori(Hokusai).


   Hokusai (Sori) [Osiokuri-hato-tusen-no-zu ] 1806-8 arc model
arc-circle model

This sumo-e series turned out to be very important experimental works to establish Sori's mature style.

 I assert that Hokusai under the name of Sharaku executed one hundred sixty works more or less.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Geometrical quantification of taste judgment in the case of Harunobu

Image
     Koryusai on the left  Harunobu on the right I found a work that imitate Harunobu's "Gojorei" by Koryusai, who is said to be a follower of Harunobu.   It is well known  that it is based on Harunobu's work [Gojounorei] . It can be imagined that the kimono figure on the left was brought from somewhere and synthesized without changing the kimono figure on the right. Musically speaking, the right and left kimonos are not made with the same scale. It will be clear if I make arc model. As all the parts are not made at the same time, Koryusai could not adjust the harmony  and balance. Early ukiyo-e painters shared patterns and  drew similar pictures. Harunobu's artistry lies in how well it is structured. All the curved lines are arcs  and the circles of the arcs are limited. the largest and the second largest circles make basic structure.                   Harunobu [Gojourei]  ...
Read more

An AI robot with no artistic appreciation ability can mechanically select works that are harmonious and balanced.

Image
  My daily image search for Matisse's drawings reveals that  there is a mixture of casually drawn pieces and well-balanced pieces, but they are easily distinguishable with taste judgement. The latter type is often lithograph. Recently I found something a little unfamiliar.      Henri Matisse, Plate 153. Florilège des Amours de Ronsard, 1948 At first glance, their hairstyles are almost same and they are facing right but they are different in size. The two shapes are just barely on the right,  so it looks like Matisse is trying for best one profile, but if you look closely, it's a pretty well-balanced composition. I can guess that this to be carefully crafted.   Harmony can be achieved by using only arcs of a limited number of circles, and balance can be adjusted by bundling those circles together.  Only a limited number of artists who know about this technique are already using it.  Conversely, an AI robot without artistic appreciat...
Read more

Picasso "Female Nude with Arms Raised"　1907 in the Sainsbury Collection ; more interesting than Les Demoiselles D’Avignon

Image
In the previous blog "Cézanne, Seurat and Beardsley arrived at the same technique", I wrote two conditions of modern art from the level of formalism: Constructing with only arcs of a few circles of different sizes creates harmony. Then the circles can be used to create a balanced structure. 　    Picasso “Female Nude with Arms Raised” 　 1907 in the Sainsbury Collection    Picasso “Female Nude with Arms Raised” 　 arc-circle model According to the explanation of the museum that owns this work, it is a study for Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, But if you look at the work itself 、 this painting is more complete. Comments without a structural model don't make much sense.  The model reminds me of Seurat's "Study of Model".    Seurat "Study of the Model"    Seurat "Study of the Model" arc-circle model.
Read more