Bingata Panel with Tree Peonies 20th century

Teruyo Shinohara made this Bingata Panel with Tree Peonies with dyes on a woven fiber in an unknown year. Look at the wash of color and how it stains the fabric, building up the design. I imagine her, the artist, patiently layering and watching how the dye bleeds, almost as if she’s in conversation with the material. This piece has the feel of something that comes from the body, but not because of the gesture. More because she seems to have worked on it slowly, meditatively, allowing the image to emerge gradually. I wonder if this is how Shinohara approaches her other work and whether this links her to other artists? I can see Helen Frankenthaler really going for this method. In the end, artists learn from each other. It is a constant give and take. Each artist leaves their own residue on the canvas for us to try to work out.