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Woman with Shamasen

Title: Woman with A Shamasen

Date: 2000

Medium: technical pen on bristol vellum

Size: 12 by 17 inches

Please note that this work is framed and ready to be displayed.

Description:

Pen and ink drawings have always been a favorite medium for me.  In this work I wanted to create a more complex image using text, landscape and the very traditional Japanese symbol the Geisha.

As my reading of Japanese culture continued, I learned that Geisha means Artist in Japanese.  The whole world of Geisha, which has no counterpart in Western Culture, is a world where devote themselves totally to a life of continuing traditions and creating a carefully articulated image of themselves for the entertainment of men and for their own economic survival.  It is a discreet world that truly defies any definition in the Western sense.

For a commission, this drawing was recreated as a three feet by one and one half foot drawing.