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Large Geisha Framed Lithograph titled TEACUP by DAVID VENTICINQUE - $150 (Highland Mills)
condition:
excellent
size / dimensions:
43"H x 31"W
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BY DAVID VENTICINQUE
HAND SIGNED AND NUMBERED SILK SCREEN LIMITED EDITION OF 200 (#8 of 200).
Framed Size - 43'' x 31''
In 1981, David Venticinque was chosen by the Artist Hisachi Otsuka of Tokyo to inherit and pass on the ancient techniques of Classical Yamotoe painting on silk.. In keeping with Japanese tradition, Venticinque had to learn in the same manner as Otsuka, and Otsuka's teacher who was one of Japan's eleven exalted masters of silk painting, Tateo Jo.
Execution of these ancient techniques demands a great deal of discipline and an inherent need for perfection. In the words of Sandra Kent off the Boston Herald, " Discipline is a key word in the works of Venticinque".
Upon first encounter, the silk paintings of artist David Venticinque strike us as lushly oriental-- gleaming with gilt clouds and rich with variegated decorative patterns. On closer inspection, a lively interplay of contemporary spatial concepts and insights emerge. We find ourselves in a landscape of traditional Japanese plasticity's, where modern ideas waltz boldly together in a tangled dance that culminates in a complex finale--ancient techniques of past and present.
Despite the intricate interweaving of two different cultural approaches, Venticinque's formal statements are coherent, resolved with a character of intelligence, that in part result from this artist's subtle eye for nuances in color and pulsating pattern. The works vibrate with echoes of the magisterial formal components of earlier Japanese masters such as Sotatsu, Yoshitoshi, and Utamaro.
Sotatsu and other Japanese screen painters employed the powerfully refined techniques principally to tell stories of heroes and warriors, ghosts and legendary love encounters. If somewhere in Venticinque's paintings a narrative, however personal and elusive, were to be discovered, rather than a myth, it would be the adventure of searching and sensitive contemporary eye.