Wild Horses
Soga Shohaku
Unknown
Medium
Pair of two-panel screens; ink on paper.
Dimensions
Painting: 167 × 184 cm (65 3/4 × 72 1/2 in.); Frame: 170.5 × 188 cm (67 3/16 × 74 1/16 in.)
Classification
screen
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
130205
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
The four panels of this work show wild horses enjoying different activities: standing, running, playing, and resting. Soga Shōhaku’s expressive force as an artist comes through in his seemingly spontaneous brushwork, which is quite rough in comparison to that of his contemporaries. The freedom with which he wielded his brush matches the spirit of the untamed animals he took as his subject in this work.