Hiroshi Senju Waterfall Blue Folding Screen Washington DC United States // WASHINGTON D.C., United States — Hiroshi Senju's 2024 artwork "Waterfall" spans an illuminated pair of six-panel folding screens on exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art. Trained in the nihonga (Japanese-style painting) tradition, Senju created the deep blue background by applying the mineral pigment azurite with wide brushes and slightly burning it to darken the hue. To render the cascading water, the artist combined historical and modern techniques, pouring, brushing, and spraying shell white pigment directly

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