Vertical And Horizontal The Difference of Expressions Found in Comparison

When appreciating Japanese paintings, you may find that there are various forms in works. For example, some hanging scrolls are vertical, and others are horizontal. Folding screens (byobu) and papered sliding doors (fusuma) spread horizontally. Painters decide whether the composition should be vertical or horizontal, depending on how they express the subjects, such as plants vertically growing up and extensive landscapes. They sometimes try to make works fresh and impressive by boldly cutting off unnecessary parts from the motif. Every work exploiting its own composition would suggest the painter’s interesting viewpoints and high expression skills.
This exhibition will display vertical works and horizontal ones. We arrange two different formed works of the same subject in parallel, selecting them from works by masters of the modern Japanese painting, including Yokoyama Taikan and Takeuchi Seiho. Focusing on the different expressions depending on the compositions can illustrate the deep world of the Japanese painting.