Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
After the Bath
Image View:
Overall view without frame; window reveals a sailboat (schooner) outside
Creator:
Yasuo Kuniyoshi (American painter, 1889-1953)
Location:
repository: Portland Museum of Art (Portland, Maine, United States) 1979.13.26
Location Note:
7 Congress Square
GPS:
43.653611-70.262222
Date:
1923 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
30 1/8 in (height) x 24 1/8 in (width)
Subjects:
portrait; seascape; Boats and boating; interior; woman; schooner
Description:
In the 1920s, Kuniyoshi painted images that were more angular, somewhat Cubist style and a tilted plane that allowed him to paint the most detail for each object in his paintings. This tilted plane can be seen in the face of the woman in this work. In these early paintings, Kuniyoshi was painting from a combination of his memory and imagination (rather than from life), which is a Japanese mode of thinking about painting. The view of a schooner outside the window is also on a tilted plane. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-KUNIYOSHI-AB-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

After the Bath