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This winter scene shows Chikuto at his most restrained, foregoing the rhythmic and compositional complexities of his most ambitious paintings. It is a distillation, a work in which the minimal means are essential to the mood.
Chikuto took classical painting as his model. The composition--nearby trees, water, distant mountain--and the spare brushwork deliberately evoke paintings by the 14th-century Chinese master Ni Tsan. They are also intended to convey the feeling of winter.
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