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ArtistFull-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of an extremely detailed Expressionistic oil painting of poem number 77, Sutoku-in, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Though a swift stream is / Divided by a boulder / In its headlong flow, / Though divided, on it rushes, / And at last unites again." A mighty rivver current rushes onward and is parted in the middle by a large boulder, almost the size of a small island. Behind the dark, craggy, wet boulder, the stream comes together again and continues onward. White froth gathers at the boulder as the river hits the obstacle. The water surface is most turbulent as the stream hits the boulder, turning smoother as it progresses past the boulder. The sky is clear and blue, the shore of the wild river is lined with pebbles and dense, green vegetation. Expressive primary colors, thick oil paint applied directly from the tube in splotches, and repetitive textures in the river. Strong symbolism, archetypical Expresssionism reminiscent of the German Expressionist painters August Macke and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Exquisite Japanese foilio.
Poem No. 77 from the Japanese poetry collection Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (see https://jti.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/hyakua.html). We may get separated in life or death like the boulder separates the river, but behind the obstacle, we will reunite again one day.