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The Artist Project: Hiroshi Sugimoto

Photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto reflects on Bamboo in the Four Seasons, attributed to Tosa Mitsunobu, in this episode of The Artist Project.
From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"It's almost like conceptual art to me."

Photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto reflects on "Bamboo in the Four Seasons," attributed to Tosa Mitsunobu in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Hiroshi Sugimoto, born in 1948, is a Japanese photographer.


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Bamboo in the Four Seasons, Tosa Mitsunobu  Japanese, Pair of six-panel screens; ink, color, and gold leaf on paper, Japan
Tosa Mitsunobu
late 15th–early 16th century