Search results for: “Kawase Hasui”
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Eye Candy for Today: Kawase Hasui’s The Pond at Benten Shrine in Shiba
The Pond at Benten Shrine in Shiba (Shiba Benten ike), Kawase Hasui Woodblock prints, roughly 11 x 16 inches (27 x 40 cm). As with most woodblock prints, there are several different “pulls” from the same block for this beautiful image designed by Japanese Shin hanga artist Kawase Hasui. I’ve selected two versions to show…
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Eye Candy for Today: Kawase Hasui woodblock print
Need to cool off? Shiba (No) Zojo-ji, color woodblock print by Kawase Hasui. On Met Museum. Use Fullscreen link and download arrow.
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Kawase Hasui (update)
Like his contemporary, Hiroshi Yoshida, Kawase Hasui was a renowned woodblock print artist of the Shin hanga, or “new prints” movement in early 20th Century Japan. Also like Yoshida, Hasui traveled extensively and produced images of a variety of locations, though not as much outside of Japan as Yoshida. Instead, Hasui sought out remote landscapes…
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Kawase Hasui
Kawase Hasui was a Japanese printmaker, active in the first half of the 20th century, who created wonderfully subtle and entrancingly beautiful woodblock prints of landscape scenes. His images were sometimes brimming with light and the brilliant colors of Spring or Autumn at other times almost monochromatic, depicting scenes at night, twilight or in the…
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Artists’ interpretations of Spring
A few paintings of Spring to mark the Vernal Equinox, and for those in the Southern Hemisphere, I’ve included Arthur Streeton’s Autumn (images above, bottom), to celebrate their oncoming season. The inclusion of JW Waterhouse’s Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May (images above, second from bottom) prompted me to include the relevant verse from Robert…
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Shiro Kasamatsu
Shiro Kasamatsu was a Japanese painter, print designer and printmaker active in the 20th century. Though he initially studied with Kaburagi Kiyokata —a master of the bijin-ga movement, which focused on figurative subjects — Kasamatsu chose landscape as his primary subject. Kasamatsu is known particularly for his delicately finessed portrayals of rain, mist, snow and…