Our Asian Art Museum‘s Beyond Golden Clouds: Five Centuries of Japanese Screens is leaving us on Sunday, January 16, 2011.
It’s all kinds of awesome.
See?
What’s this look like?
Zooming out:
Does it sort of look like a person, in a boat, in a skiff?
The mise-en-scene, or half of it, anyway.
AAM BGC Cat. 2 Landscape, approx. 1602, right screen. By Kaiho Yusho (approx. 1533-1615). Pair of six-panel screens; ink and gold on paper. Saint Louis Art Museum, Friends Fund (59:1962.1-2)
That’s what they call a “great efficiency of ink,” huh?
And best of all, there’s no glass or nothing to get in your way – there’ll be nada betwixt you and a 409-year-old masterpiece.
Now, that’s old bidness, that’s what’s going away after this weekend.
Here’s the new bidness, coming up in February 2011.
Arts of Pacific Asia Show Preview Opening Gala
See you there!
