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Lying Dragon Plum Tree [left of a pair] https://collections.artsmia.org/art/123029/
Pair of 2-panel screens; slightly abstracted image of gnarled grey tree branches covered in pink dots (blossoms); some light grey/white ovoid negative spaces in LLC Although he initially studied Western oil painting, in the late 1930s Funada Gyokuju came to be seen as a representative of avant-garde Japanese painting and participated in exhibitions of the experimental Rekitei Art Association, whose members were influenced by surrealist and abstract art. After the end of World War II (1939–45), he sequestered himself in his native Hiroshima, one of the cities that had been decimated by a nuclear bomb at the end of the war. He subsequently refused to participate in nationwide exhibitions. For this painting, based on the artist’s own photographs and sketches, Funada achieved the richness and density of thousands of plum blossoms by applying many layers of paint to the paper surface, one after another over the course of many years.  
September 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Two souls from Onmyoji
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Tree Nymph 🍃 and Fortune Cat 🐱

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October 23, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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Lying Dragon Plum Tree [right of a pair] https://collections.artsmia.org/art/123030/
Pair of 2-panel screens; slightly abstracted image of gnarled grey tree branches covered in pink dots (blossoms); higher concentration of grey branches in LRC Although he initially studied Western oil painting, in the late 1930s Funada Gyokuju came to be seen as a representative of avant-garde Japanese painting and participated in exhibitions of the experimental Rekitei Art Association, whose members were influenced by surrealist and abstract art. After the end of World War II (1939–45), he sequestered himself in his native Hiroshima, one of the cities that had been decimated by a nuclear bomb at the end of the war. He subsequently refused to participate in nationwide exhibitions. For this painting, based on the artist’s own photographs and sketches, Funada achieved the richness and density of thousands of plum blossoms by applying many layers of paint to the paper surface, one after another over the course of many years.
September 14, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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Lying Dragon Plum Tree [right of a pair] https://collections.artsmia.org/art/123030/
Pair of 2-panel screens; slightly abstracted image of gnarled grey tree branches covered in pink dots (blossoms); higher concentration of grey branches in LRC Although he initially studied Western oil painting, in the late 1930s Funada Gyokuju came to be seen as a representative of avant-garde Japanese painting and participated in exhibitions of the experimental Rekitei Art Association, whose members were influenced by surrealist and abstract art. After the end of World War II (1939–45), he sequestered himself in his native Hiroshima, one of the cities that had been decimated by a nuclear bomb at the end of the war. He subsequently refused to participate in nationwide exhibitions. For this painting, based on the artist’s own photographs and sketches, Funada achieved the richness and density of thousands of plum blossoms by applying many layers of paint to the paper surface, one after another over the course of many years.
September 14, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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Flowers (Image of Evening), by Gyokuju Funada, 1938, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social
April 7, 2024 at 10:27 PM