Collection

Bathing Women

OGURA, Yuki

1938

Information

Title
Bathing Women
Artist
OGURA, Yuki View artist Information
Year
1938
Collection
Gift of the artist
Medium
color on silk, framed
Size(cm)
209.0×174.5
Collection ID no.
J00448

Commentary

“When a woman depicts women bathing, it doesn’t seem obscene.” This seems like one possible reaction to a work of this kind, but unless the artist specifically sets out to draw a nude woman in an obscene (lustful, lascivious) manner, she is simply a naked human being. The reason this work seems so clean is that it is not devised to be a voyeuristic scene or peep show, or to present the kind of flirtatious glances, coquettish behavior or flushed cheeks found in a conventional bathing picture. Ogura’s interest was apparently roused by the hot springs in the tiled bathtub and the swaying, flattened state of the lattice pattern running in both directions.

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