Flower Viewing (I) (Goddesses)
Artist
Mayumi Oda
(Japanese, born 1941)
Date1971
Mediumscreenprint; color on paper
Dimensionsimage: 73.8 × 55.5 cm (29 1/16 × 21 7/8 in.)
sheet: 91.5 × 63 cm (36 × 24 13/16 in.)
sheet: 91.5 × 63 cm (36 × 24 13/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineHarriet B. Bancroft Fund
Object number1989.141.1
Label TextA graduate of Tokyo University of Fine Arts, Mayumi Oda is an internationally recognized silk-screen artist who lives and works at the Green Gulch Farm of the San Francisco Zen Center. She is a practitioner of Zen meditation. This pair of prints are from her Goddess series, which draws on traditional subjects but with a mocking interpretation from the feminist perspective. Flower viewing is a common theme of traditional Japanese art. Here the traditional modest woman is transformed into a self-confident modern female. Mayumi Oda's own comment on these two prints reads:
"Cherry blossoms are the best loved flowers in
Japan. I invited a dancer of a 16th century
screen to join my flower viewing party.
I asked her to take her costume off to enjoy the
thick full blossoms and falling petals."ProvenanceMary Baskett Gallery, Cincinnati, OHOn View
Not on viewKikukawa Eizan 菊川 英山
11th mont Bunka 3, December 1806