Haboku Landscape
Submitted by Catch-22 on April 24, 2008
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One of my favorite works of art in that I’ve discovered through this class is the hanging scroll Haboku Landscape for Soen. Painted by Sesshu Toyo, I feel that the piece wonderfully shows a Japanese landscape through with minimal brushstrokes. It is both descriptive and empty at the same time. The painting shows what appears to be a house that rests underneath a group of trees as a river drifts by it lazily. If you look into the background, shapes that may be mountain loom in the distance, obscured by a thick veil of fog. The painting seems to stop time, as if this particular landscape has and will forever be stuck in the covering blanket of mist.
The scroll in painted in the style of Haboku. This style is known as the splashed ink style. Painters who used this style believed that splashes of paint had a purpose in works, and believed that the splashes had...