7 Birds by Korin in Red Oskar Schlemmer and a flock of plovers

and a flock of plovers scatters across the sky like flecks of spray

The colour is applied in deliberate

at its best

Working in the shin-hanga tradition

7 Birds by Korin in Red Oskar Schlemmer and a flock of plovers7 Birds by Korin in Red channels the decorative, nature focused style of Ogata Krin, the Edo period painter whose bold, simplified compositions gave the Rinpa school its name. Seven birds are arranged against a rich red ground in a manner that echoes Krin's flattened, graphic treatment of nature vivid colour and confident pattern standing in for naturalistic detail. As an archival fine art print, the crisp linework and subtle tonal shifts of the