Parrot and Quince

Dated 1950, the parrot and quince pairing creates a carefully balanced decorative composition in the traditional kachoga (bird-and-flower picture) mode — the parrot's colorful plumage contrasting with the quince's rough fruit and gnarled branches. Kotozuka, better known for his architectural landscapes, brings to this occasional bird-and-flower subject the same attentiveness to color and compositional balance that characterizes his architectural work. The quince, with its fragrant yellow fruit and thorny branches, provides the parrot an appropriately textural perch.