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Follow the stream between the rocks, then compare the dark bamboo leaves with the pale washes behind them. Notice how the landscape continues across the central fold.
Ike Taiga painted this two-panel screen in ink. Cleveland connects its title with a design in Taiga’s Brush Methods and describes the scene as refreshed by rain. A rushing stream, a distant village and giant bamboo lead the eye through the landscape.
Two-panel folding screen; ink on paper · Image: 163.2 x 182.6 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Bamboo and Rocks in Clearing Skies
- Artist
- Ike Taiga (Japanese, 1723–1776)
- Date
- mid-1700s
- Medium
- Two-panel folding screen; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 163.2 x 182.6 cm (64 1/4 x 71 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1723–1776
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.