Oriental Masterprint – 18, from the series Oriental Masterprints
Roger Shimomura American
Not on view
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.
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