Procession to the Torinomachi festival in the rice fields of Asakusa by Hiroshige Landscape The work exemplifies Klee's ability

The work exemplifies Klee's ability to locate the poetic and the absurd within the same visual language

contemplative

The composition draws the eye directly to the subject

The composition operates on the principle that ornament and subject are one — figure

the eyes closed in an expression that sits between ecstasy and absence

Procession to the Torinomachi festival in the rice fields of Asakusa by Hiroshige Landscape The work exemplifies Klee's abilityProcession to the Torinomachi Festival in the Rice Fields of Asakusa captures a moment of seasonal ritual in Edo period Japan a winding procession moving through flooded rice paddies under an autumn sky. Hiroshige structures the scene around the strong diagonal of the path, which guides the eye from the lower foreground through the line of figures to the distant shrine torii just visible against the pale horizon. The reflections in the water fields