Ink Painting and the Rinpa Tradition

Yukio Lippit, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Professor Lippit focuses on the influence of ink painting on the Japanese Rinpa aesthetic in a lecture from the Sunday at the Met series.
The exhibition Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art is on view May 26, 2012--January 13, 2013 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The exhibition is made possible by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation.
The catalogue is made possible by the Richard and Geneva Hofheimer Memorial Fund.