Deep Mountain Stream

2001

Deep Mountain Stream, 2001. Minol Araki (Japanese, 1928–2010). Ink on paper (unmounted); overall: 46.7 x 61.8 cm (18 3/8 x 24 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of David Tausig Frank and Kazukuni Sugiyama 2016.305 This abstracted ink landscape, with its dramatic mountain stream, is captured with a bird’s-eye view. It was produced late in the career of the artist, whose oeuvre includes landscapes, bird-and-flower and figure paintings in ink and sometimes bright colors. An industrial designer by profession, Araki’s landscapes reveal his personal devotion to traditional Chinese brush methods, learned first as a youth in China, and later through emulation of famed painter Zhang Daqian (1899–1983) in Taiwan.