In simple terms, when you visit the museum to see Ingres' most famous works, seventy percent are young ladies.
And half of those young ladies are not wearing clothes.
In layman's terms...
Uncle Sakai was famous back in the day for painting the naked flesh of beautiful girls exceptionally well.
From a highbrow perspective, Uncle Sakai elevated the human body to an artistic level that is emotional but not vulgar, beautiful but not tawdry.
From a lowbrow perspective...
Well, aside from Professor Yakai Ichiro's paintings of young ladies selling for over one million dollars each,
they're not much different from online erotic art, right!
Thinking from this angle.
It's understandable that Koshiba Kentaro, who is closest to Klimt's style, the Austrian painter who proclaimed "art is eroticism" throughout Vienna in the 19th century, would reach out to Professor Yajima for deeper collaboration.
