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context: painting > great schools > kano
Kano Eitoku 1543-90
Eitoku was the grandson of Motonobu, and I think it's around here that tradition and style turned into ossified rules, and the Kano style was set in stone for generations to come. The opulence of the gold, the synthesis of Northern and Southern Chinese landscape styles. There's a strength and drama, a sweep, in Eitoku's work that is lacking in most of those to come.
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a cypress tree on a golden background, on a screen by Kano Eitoku
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