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Reason
My third and likely last nomination of an iconic image of Japanese art, for the time being at least. Irises (紙本金地著色燕子花図, kakitsubata-zu) is a pair of six-panel
folding screens (byōbu) by the Japanese artist
Ogata Kōrin of the
Rinpa school, from 1702, and now held by the
Nezu Museum in Tokyo. They are shown in the reverse of the current (2004)
5000 yen note. While the originals remained in Japan, it is believed that a woodcut reproduction may influenced the Impressionist works of
Vincent van Gogh, including his Irises.
I am relatively new at this, so may I ask, what "minimum resolution" is being applied here? The first two panels are 2,000×835 and 2,009×830, and the third one is 3,904×1,636 pixels. I see
WP:FP? indicates a minimum of 1,500 pixels in width and height, subject to exceptions. The third one, at least, meets the minimum, surely? And given these works are held in the private collection at the
Nezu Museum, how would you propose that we secure a higher resolution image? Do we have to wait for the museum to release one with an appropriate licence?
Theramin (
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21:44, 6 July 2017 (UTC)reply
We would either have to have someone at Nezu take images, or wait for the Museum to release a higher resolution digitization. Exceptions to the minimum resolution are only rarely granted; indeed, images such as painting digitizations are often held to a higher standard. I think there's only a couple exceptions made a year.
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Janke |
Talk07:28, 9 July 2017 (UTC)reply
Fine, so I guess that means the two original images are hopeless? I'll let you all decide between yourselves whether the third one qualifies or not.
Theramin (
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23:00, 9 July 2017 (UTC)reply