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The new Meiji government sent Kawamura and a small group of other young Japanese artists to the United States and Europe in 1871 to study Western painting. Here Kawamura mixes oil paint, a common medium in the West, with sumi ink, used by Japanese artists for over two thousand years, to create a traditional type of Asian art: a pair of folding screens.
Kawamura’s innovation is especially noticeable on this screen, where he overlaid the base layer of sumi ink with thick applications of oil paint, giving the surface a dramatic, almost three-dimensional appearance.
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| Title: | Dragon in Clouds Heaven and Earth |
| Date: | c. 1900 |
| Artist: | Kawamura Kiyoo (Japanese, 1852–1934) |
| Medium: | Oil on paper, mounted as a six-fold screen |
| Dimensions: | Image: 14 3/4 × 47 1/2 inches (37.5 × 120.7 cm) Framed: 19 7/8 × 52 5/8 inches (50.5 × 133.7 cm) Case: 21 x 53 1/4 x 2 1/8 inches (53.3 x 135.3 x 5.4 cm) |
| Classification: | Paintings |
| Credit Line: | Purchased with the East Asian Art Revolving Fund, 2017 |
| Accession Number: | 2017-135-3 |
| Geography: | Made in Japan, Asia |
| Context: | Period: Meiji Period (1868-1912) |
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