ART SHOW
I went to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art today and saw a really exciting exhibition of Theater prints of Tsukioka Kogyo. I have always loved the way Asian prints look so simple almost effortlessly. He is best known for the hundreds of prints he produced depicting noh theater, a highly stylized form of performance dating to the 14th century, that incorporates the arts of recitation, song, dance, and mime. Influenced by Western watercolors and photographs, as well as an interest in representing movement and three-dimensionality, Kogyo developed a unique artistic style and created a new vision of the actors in the Japanese print tradition. In his celebrated series "One Hundred Noh Plays," the richly colored, meticulously printed, striking images of individual actors in each composition monumentalize the emotion and delicate movement expressed by each actor.
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