The Tiger of Ryokoku by Hirokage Photography-Modern Van Gogh's characteristic impasto-like brushwork

Van Gogh's characteristic impasto-like brushwork and the luminous color palette of this late masterwork are rendered with the fine detail and chromatic accuracy the painting deserves

Rainbow Chevrons is a bold

and the open white of the ground itself

balancing strong female portraiture with an almost decorative abstraction of line and form

graduated tones are smooth — exactly as the work demands

The Tiger of Ryokoku by Hirokage Photography-Modern Van Gogh's characteristic impasto-like brushworkUtagawa Hirokage stages a scene of magnificent disorder: a tiger almost certainly a man in a tiger costume, or perhaps a rumoured beast has sent the inhabitants of Ryokoku into full comic panic. Figures flee in every direction with the exaggerated urgency that defines Hirokage's Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo series. The composition is dense and kinetic, every corner occupied by someone in the process of escaping, the joke played completely