‘Ionian Sea Santa Cesarea’ (1990)
“There’s this idea that almost nothing in the world had actually remained the same as it was millions of years ago except, perhaps, the view of the ocean from this perspective.”
- Kerry Brougher on Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes
“If this photograph now appears lifelike to you, you had better reconsider what it means to be alive here and now.”
- Hiroshi Sugimoto on a series of photographs he made of waxwork historical personages at Madame Tussauds, London.
Dodo Jin Ming
Free Element, Plate XXX (2002)
Free Element, Plate XXXI (2002)
Green Lung
Shinzo and Roso Fukuhara
Between Trees. Paris, France. 1913. Shinzo Fukuhara
Pine at Pond Edge. Shuzenji, Shizuoka. 1928. Shinzo Fukuhara
Basic definition, limits, and aspects of solitude
“There are many different aspects of solitude as it pertains to and manifests itself in landscape painting. In addition to being multi-faceted, the meaning and boundaries of solitude have evolved.
Solitude by dictionary definition means: (1) loneliness, seclusion, and solitariness (of persons), the state of being or living alone; (2) loneliness (of places); remoteness from habitation, absence of life or disturbance; (3) a lonely, unfrequented or uninhabited place. Synonyms with solitude are: isolation, seclusion, desolation, separateness, remoteness, emptiness, wilderness, retirement, withdrawal, retreat, detachment, hermitage, peace, and quiet. Yet, strict definitions and synonyms only provide a rough lens for approaching solitude in art.
The landscape of solitude may depict either a state of being unaccompanied, isolated, away from the social life or a solitary place that is out-of-the-way. At this point we are not so much concerned with that “state of being” as with these elements: un-accompaniment, isolation, and removed-ness, all of which may be achieved by physical isolation by being (1) remote, (2) enclosed, (3) deserted, and (4) separated.”
Hua Zhang.
Some new prints.
