Kawase Hasui — Dusk at Kiba: Vintage Japanese Ukiyo-e | Japanese Woodblock Print (Shin Hanga)

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Kawase Hasui — Dusk at Kiba: Vintage Japanese Ukiyo-e | Japanese Woodblock Print (Shin Hanga)Kawase Hasui (18831957) was a master of shin hanga, the revolutionary "new woodblock" movement that transformed Japanese printmaking in the 20th century. Hasui is celebrated for his luminous night scenesmoonlit temples, rain soaked streets, nocturnal water landscapeseach rendered with atmospheric depth and subtle color that evoke mood over mere representation. His works epitomize shin hanga's marriage of traditional ukiyo e technique with modernist

animals that seem to be thinking

and drawings of horses

His travel and advertising posters from the 1910s and 1920s are among the finest examples of applied graphic art from the Weimar era

the macrocosm

He died at 44

Known for his birds

A universally beloved object that works in virtually any room

and a peculiar dread — captures the atmosphere of Chambers' work precisely

Sakura imagery runs from the great woodblock prints of the Edo period through the Shin Hanga movement to contemporary Japanese graphic design — a continuous tradition in which the blossom's combination of colour

Emilio Pettoruti (1892–1971) was an Argentine painter who studied in Florence and became the most important early practitioner of Cubism in Latin America

His signature colour field compositions — luminous

Frames are solid ash and oak

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