![]() ![]() Over the course of her career, Yukinobu seemed “to make a conscious choice” towards portraits of female historical figures and deities, Cervone said, which was unusual considering women’s societal status. The Picture Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo Pictured here: "Flying Celestial," in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Yukinobu had "perfect control of the brush," according to curator Einor Cervone. (Yukinobu’s brother, too, was an artist, but he was “not nearly as good as her,” Berry added.) Her granduncle, Kanō Tan’yū, was a monumental figure within the Kanō tradition, and her father, Kusumi Morikage, was renowned as well, though he either left or was ousted from the Kanō school amid conflict with Kanō Tan’yū, Berry explained. Yukinobu had access to the arts from a young age, giving her a rare opportunity to train. She became known as “keishū” - a “woman highly accomplished in the arts,” according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. During a highly restrictive era for women, she trained within the Kanō tradition, which combined the ink and brushwork of Chinese paintings with the color and ornament of Japanese art. “So few museums anywhere put on exhibitions of the women who painted or did calligraphy in Japan.”ĭespite the scant details about her life that survive today, Yukinobu makes for a compelling figure. But he laments the fact that Yukinobu - and other women artists from Japan - are not given more prominence beyond occasional inclusion in broad group shows. “(Her paintings) may come out… if you have an exhibition of Edo period Kanō painting,” Berry said. ![]() This once enslaved 17th century artist was misunderstood for centuries. “Very few would recognize (the name) Yukinobu, and that should not be the case,” said Einor Cervone, the associate curator of Asian Art at the Denver Art Museum, which recently concluded a rare exhibition of the work of historical Japanese women artists, titled “ Her Brush.” “The reason why she’s not as well-known is not because she was not as accomplished or talented or as prolific… It is because of our historical research and presentation and curatorship that has taken place in the past 100 years or so.” Her fame has faded as contemporary art historians and institutions have failed to shine a light on her - as well as Japanese women artists from centuries past more widely. She became an accomplished artist in the Kanō school - the country’s most prestigious lineage of painters - and, for a century after, was name-dropped in literature and theater, earning a long, influential legacy for someone who may have only lived to be 39 years old.īut today, Yukinobu is far from a household name. Click the Web Sources drop down button, select Audible.In atmospheric ink paintings on silk, featuring striking portraits of women and exquisite flora and fauna, the artist Kiyohara Yukinobu struck out on a path in the late 17th century that few women in Japan had navigated. ![]()
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