Spring Ridge, by Asai Chu, Tokyo National Museum, Japan

Spring Ridge

Asai Chū

Spring Ridge, by Asai Chu, Tokyo National Museum, Japan

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Details

Artist
Asai Chū
Date
1888
Holding institution
Tokyo National Museum
Image provider
wikimedia-commons
License
Public domain
Credit
Tokyo National Museum

Art Genome Taxonomy

9 tags

Subject Matter

  • Landscapes Visual · 99%

    The composition presents an expansive countryside with cultivated fields, paths, vegetation, a village, and a distant tree line.

  • Work and Workers Visual · 99%

    Several figures in the foreground and middle ground are visibly working with long-handled agricultural tools.

  • Rural Life Visual · 98%

    Furrowed fields, rural dwellings, paths, and agricultural activity establish a village farming environment.

  • Atmospheric Landscapes Visual · 86%

    The pale sky, softened distant tree line, and reduced contrast across the middle distance give the landscape a hazy atmospheric treatment.

Visual Qualities

  • Earth Tones Visual · 97%

    Browns, olive greens, ochres, and subdued beige-gray tones dominate the fields, houses, vegetation, and sky.

Medium and Techniques

  • Broad, broken marks are visible across the sky, vegetation, fields, and buildings, with smaller strokes defining figures and plants.

  • Painting Visual · 96%

    The supplied image has a visibly brush-applied pictorial surface with layered color and modeled forms rather than a photographic or purely graphic appearance.

Time Periods

  • 19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

    The canonical metadata dates the work to 1888, placing it in the nineteenth century.

Geographic Regions

  • Japanese Art Metadata · 98%

    The canonical metadata classifies the work as a Japanese painting or print and identifies the artist as Asai Chū.

Source & rights

Asai Chū. http://www.emuseum.jp/detail/100325/000/000?mode=detail&d_lang=en&s_lang=en&class=&title=&c_e=Ch%C5%AB&region=&era=&century=&cptype=&owner=&pos=1&num=1

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