Wild Horses
<p>The four panels of this work show wild horses enjoying different activities: standing, running, playing, and resting. Soga Shōhaku’s expressive force as an artist comes through in his seemingly spontaneous brushwork, which is quite rough in comparison to that of his contemporaries. The freedom with which he wielded his brush matches the spirit of the untamed animals he took as his subject in this work.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1775
- Dimensions
- Painting: 167 × 184 cm (65 3/4 × 72 1/2 in.); Frame: 170.5 × 188 cm (67 3/16 × 74 1/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Soga Shohaku
Artist
Painting
Soga Shōhaku was a Japanese painter of the Edo period. Shōhaku distinguished himself from his contemporaries by preferring the brush style of the Muromachi period, an aesthetic that was already passé 150 years before his birth. His monstrous depictions of prominent figures were extremely unusual compared to other painters of his time.
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Carp [left of a triptych of Taigong Wang, Dragon, and Carp]
1770
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- Soga Shohaku
- Year
- 1775
- Dimensions
- Painting: 167 × 184 cm (65 3/4 × 72 1/2 in.); Frame: 170.5 × 188 cm (67 3/16 × 74 1/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1775-141991
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified