7 Birds by Korin in Red Oskar Schlemmer Cherry Blossom comes from the

Cherry Blossom comes from the hand-coloured photographic work of Ogawa Kazumasa

but alive with the wonder of the cosmos it charts

The colour is applied in deliberate

The composition is structured yet lyrical — geometric in its precision

There is no single point of arrival

7 Birds by Korin in Red Oskar Schlemmer Cherry Blossom comes from the7 Birds by Korin in Red channels the decorative, nature focused style of Ogata Krin, the Edo period painter whose bold, simplified compositions gave the Rinpa school its name. Seven birds are arranged against a rich red ground in a manner that echoes Krin's flattened, graphic treatment of nature vivid colour and confident pattern standing in for naturalistic detail. As an archival fine art print, the crisp linework and subtle tonal shifts of the