#Wabi-sabi

[aestheticsof]

Wabi-Sabi Space

[jareckiworld]

Yusaku Munakata — What a Heart (acrylic on canvas, 2007)

[escapismsworld]

wabi-sabi

(n.) the discovery of beauty within the imperfections of life.

Japanese

[ecbanda]

[infiniteartmachine]

"a picture of a sculpture of a structure in the water"

[dharmafox]

Philosophical question: When do artistic imperfections cease to be wabi-sabi and simply become, you know... a mistake?

Because I just realized the colors on the Medicine Seller's sleeves are totally wrong in this shot:

The outer edge of both sleeves should be green, and the bottom of the lower sleeve should be blue.

(Of course I had a whole piece colored based on this screenshot before I realized it was definitely wrong.)

Artistically passable, or just an oops?

[noosphe-re]

Wabi-sabi can be called a "comprehensive" aesthetic system. Its world view, or universe, is self-referential. It provides an integrated approach to the ultimate nature of existence (metaphysics), sacred knowledge (spirituality), emotional well-being (state of mind), behavior (morality), and the look and feel of things (materiality). The more systematic and clearly defined the components of an aesthetic system are—the more conceptual handles, the more ways it refers back to fundamentals—the more useful it is.

Leonard Koren, Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

[hojicha-co]

The first Raku tea bowl was created by Chōjirō, a tile craftsman, with the guidance of Sen no Rikyū. The prominent tea master was seeking a tea bowl for a style of Japanese tea ceremony emphasizing simplicity known as wabi-cha. The Raku bowl reflected the ideals of the wabi aesthetic, as it was formed by hand with an appreciation for the natural imperfections.

[almostarts]

Raku Jikinyū, “White Rock series”

Raku tea bowls are shaped by hand rather than being thrown on the potter's wheel and are drawn from the kiln at the height of the firing so that they cool rapidly in the atmosphere outside. 

Their purpose is for drinking whipped tea (matcha) in the tea ceremony (chanoyu). 

Typically either monochrome red or monochrome black, Raku tea bowls were considered radically avant-garde when they first appeared in the late sixteenth century. They were synonymous with the ideals of the wabi style of tea ceremony pioneered by the renowned tea master Sen Rikyū (1522-91). 

The Raku family has lived and worked on the same plot of land in Kyoto since 1586. Jikinyū succeeded to the family headship as Raku Kichizaemon XV in 1981 and assumed the name Jikinyū when he retired in favour of his elder son, who became Raku Kichizaemon XVI in July 2019. He has devoted his career to exploring the possibilities of the traditional tea bowl format in a constant search for new modes of expression. 

His tea bowls are characterised by bold sculptural trimming and the creative use of the yakinuki firing method.

Courtesy: Annely Juda Fine Art

[japan-minka]

Kominato Wabi-sabi

[kinsentokyo]

Karatsu Tea Cup

+SHOP+

[jareckiworld]

Tetsutaro Kamatani — Zodiac (resin and paint on canvas, 2023)

[atlxolotl]

[orpheusz]

L'éternité se lasse...

[infiniteartmachine]

"a painting shows a person on top of a building under an open air sky" "a painting of some very interesting architecture in a very colorful sky" "a person is standing in front of a statue made out of stone" "an abstract painting shows an artistic arrangement with branches, rocks and water"

[almertola]

WABI - SABI　侘寂　#wabisabi #japanesegarden