ロジャー・シモムラ画　オリエンタル・マスタープリント18|Oriental Masterprint – 18, from the series Oriental Masterprints

Roger Shimomura

1975 · Color screen print on wove paper · Asian Art

Shimomura employs crisscross latticework (seen in several other prints in the Oriental Masterprints series) as a pictorial device to evoke the setting of the Yoshiwara red-light district, where courtesans, seated behind similar barriers, awaited their clients. Here, a courtesan, identifiable by her array of hairpins, is being embraced by a male client. In this print and throughout the series, the artist intended to make the viewer aware of, and grapple with, stereotypes of “Oriental” art.

Artist

Roger Shimomura

Date

1975

Medium

Color screen print on wove paper

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Vasco R. Geer III, 2014