Green Peacock by Koson Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm painted in the last moments

painted in the last moments before full sunrise

while the cool

merging place and image into a single

and flowing water

Green Peacock by Koson Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm painted in the last momentsOhara Koson renders the peacock with the disciplined elegance that defines the kacho e tradition. The bird's iridescent plumage a sweep of layered greens and blues is rendered in careful gradation, each feather articulated with the kind of linework that only a practised hand can sustain. The composition is asymmetric in the classical Japanese sense: the peacock positioned to create tension with empty space, the background stripped back to let colour