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Maruyama Ôkyo

Japanese · 1733–1795

Maruyama school

Maruyama Ōkyo , born Maruyama Masataka, was a Japanese artist active in the late 18th century. He moved to Kyoto, during which he studied artworks from Chinese, Japanese and Western sources. A personal style of Western naturalism mixed with Eastern decorative design emerged, and Ōkyo founded the Maruyama school of painting. Although many of his fellow artists criticized his work as too slavishly devoted to natural representation, it proved a success with laypeople.

Independent artist guide by Momentable. Biography from Wikipedia; artworks credited to the museums that hold them.

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life: 1733–1795life
movement: Maruyama schoolmovement

The work

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Winter Day
Maruyama Ôkyo
The Cleveland Museum of Art

Heron on a Willow Branch
Maruyama Ôkyo
The Cleveland Museum of Art

How Maruyama Ôkyo worked

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Maruyama style is a school of painting founded by the mid-Edo period painter Maruyama Okyo. One of the leading schools of early modern Japanese painting, the Maruyama style was based on the realistic sensibilities of the emerging townships of Kyoto in the mid-18th century and had a major influence on Japanese painting with its new style that fused realism with traditional decorative elements. It is characterised by the use of a technique known as tsukeitate, in which a frame is not drawn and ink shading is added. Still, Ōkyo's works remain Japanese. Unlike European painting, Ōkyo's images have very few midtones.