Cemetery Flowers After The Ice Storm Photography: Peter Fricke

cemetery flowers after the ice storm photography: Peter Fricke

i’ve watched this like 8 times in a row

The above picture features ’Lovers in a private room in a teahouse’ (1788), oban format, from the series ’Poem of the Pillow’ by Kitagawa Utamaro.

This Utamaro design inspired Toulouse-Lautrec (who possessed this piece) to create the below painting ’Two lovers (Les deux amies)’ in 1895. 

Click on the word Toulouse-Lautrec at the end of this sentence if you want to learn about Lautrec’s fascination with shunga and particularly Utamaro: TOULOUSE-LAUTREC. 

Pow pow! This is my dressed in black going raving at night🐈‍⬛🩻