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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.)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineHarriet B. Bancroft Fund

Terms

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, OH

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