Reiji Hiramatsu “Giverny Spring Banquet” (FGR)

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[Work explanation]
When Monet created a garden in Giverny, he built a drum bridge over a pond, modeled after Japanese ukiyo-e prints. A wisteria trellis is set up above the Taiko Bridge, and in spring, beautiful purple wisteria flowers bloom as if decorating the Taiko Bridge from above.
This work depicts a wisteria vine with many small purple flowers in the foreground, weeping downward from the top of the screen. In the background, the water surface of the pond is abstracted by the golden water mirror and the pattern of blue sea waves. A stylized swallow is placed in the middle ground to connect these two disparate spaces (=layers). Swallows are often depicted in classical Japanese literature and in ukiyo-e, and their beautiful flight in the air (= swallow return) is a popular motif in ukiyo-e.