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The Extraordinary Bestiary of Kyôsai.
OIKAWA Shigeru.

The Extraordinary Bestiary of Kyôsai.

Picquier Editions
€32,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 25006
Format 21 x 27.5
Détails 200 p., numerous color illustrations, publisher's hardcover.
Publication Paris, 2021
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782809715668
Kawanabe Kyôsai (1831-1889) was a virtuoso artist, considered in his time as Hokusai's successor, who produced an exceptional and prolific body of work in a short period of time: more than 1,000 prints, nearly 150 illustrated books and albums, more than 7,000 pages of a journal in which he sketched his day-to-day life, and more than 50,000 paintings and drawings. Among his exuberantly fanciful works, animals occupy a prominent place. Larger than life, they are captured in full movement in colorful and refined scenes. Humanized, they serve the painter's taste for comedy and satire, for Kyôsai was a remarkable observer of the ridiculousness of his contemporaries and did not hesitate to caricature the powerful, which earned him a term in prison. His acrobatic animals, who dance or go to weddings, sometimes transform into fantastical in wild farandoles. And it is thanks to one of them, the crow, that this extraordinary painter became the most famous of his time.
Kawanabe Kyôsai (1831-1889) was a virtuoso artist, considered in his time as Hokusai's successor, who produced an exceptional and prolific body of work in a short period of time: more than 1,000 prints, nearly 150 illustrated books and albums, more than 7,000 pages of a journal in which he sketched his day-to-day life, and more than 50,000 paintings and drawings. Among his exuberantly fanciful works, animals occupy a prominent place. Larger than life, they are captured in full movement in colorful and refined scenes. Humanized, they serve the painter's taste for comedy and satire, for Kyôsai was a remarkable observer of the ridiculousness of his contemporaries and did not hesitate to caricature the powerful, which earned him a term in prison. His acrobatic animals, who dance or go to weddings, sometimes transform into fantastical in wild farandoles. And it is thanks to one of them, the crow, that this extraordinary painter became the most famous of his time.