Love the depiction of wing movement

Beautiful use of negative space

Seihō was one of the founders of the Nihonga 'Japanese painting' style, which combined traditional Japanese subjects and materials with European artistic techniques and conventions.

🐦 Painted and embroidered screen depicting a group of sparrows, Seihō Takeuchi (1864 - 1942), 1910–1920. EA2013.35.a

He described this picture as 'a study of a magnificent curved staircase and balustrade, leading to a grand façade that would reduce a millionaire to a worm'.

See this piece on display in Gallery 65 on Level 3M.

☀️ A balustrade, John Singer Sargent, 1906. WA1929.7

This piece is typical of the Rinpa style of painting. The Rinpa School emerged in Kyoto in the early 1600s and is distinctive for its dramatic compositions and bold use of gold and colours.

🍁🍃Screen with autumn and winter flowers, Watanabe Shikō (1683 - 1755). EA1970.175

Outdoors, in art museums, old buildings or gardens, everything else, I hate

Hibiscus mutabilis, aka Confederate Rose, a somewhat unfortunate name from today's perspective