An exquisite lithograph produced on a very textural Japanese ‘washi’ paper, published by Yasukawa as part of their collaborative calendar project.
“The original prints were carved on unplaned boards from old apple boxes, cracks and nail holes disregarded. All the carving was done with one round chisel. To get the distinctive shadings, Munakata moistened his paper heavily and printed in two stages. “I think,” he says, “that it was with these prints that I mastered the use of white lines in black masses, the experiment I began with Shokei Hanga Saku.”
Original Printing Date: 1950 (lithograph printing date: 2005) Medium: Lithograph
Shiko Munakata (1903-1975) was a Japanese artist, world-renowned for his woodblock prints and his role in popularising both the shin-hanga and mingei movements in the West. Munakata’s distinctive and harsh take on print making gained worldwide attention in the mid 20th Century: in the Eastern World, this was a result of his departure from more traditional production techniques whilst still maintaining the cultural subject matter of Buddha, flowers and similar everyday imagery. Whereas in the West, the prints were produced in a style not too dissimilar from the European abstract and modernist artists, which in turn gained Munakata the nickname of ‘Japanese Picasso.’ One can easily see the similarties between the two artists.
An interesting observation is noticing that Picasso and his French peers were influenced by the work of the earlier Japanese printmakers, notably Hokusai, which in turn influenced Munakata; the influence really travelled full circle within artistic circles in the 19th and 20thcenturies.
From Tan I Hanga Saku 1950 by Shiko Munakata
£55.00
An exquisite lithograph produced on a very textural Japanese ‘washi’ paper, published by Yasukawa as part of their collaborative calendar project.
“The original prints were carved on unplaned boards from old apple boxes, cracks and nail holes disregarded. All the carving was done with one round chisel. To get the distinctive shadings, Munakata moistened his paper heavily and printed in two stages. “I think,” he says, “that it was with these prints that I mastered the use of white lines in black masses, the experiment I began with Shokei Hanga Saku.”
Original Printing Date: 1950 (lithograph printing date: 2005)
Medium: Lithograph
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Shikō Munakata 棟方 志功
Shiko Munakata (1903-1975) was a Japanese artist, world-renowned for his woodblock prints and his role in popularising both the shin-hanga and mingei movements in the West. Munakata’s distinctive and harsh take on print making gained worldwide attention in the mid 20th Century: in the Eastern World, this was a result of his departure from more traditional production techniques whilst still maintaining the cultural subject matter of Buddha, flowers and similar everyday imagery. Whereas in the West, the prints were produced in a style not too dissimilar from the European abstract and modernist artists, which in turn gained Munakata the nickname of ‘Japanese Picasso.’ One can easily see the similarties between the two artists.
An interesting observation is noticing that Picasso and his French peers were influenced by the work of the earlier Japanese printmakers, notably Hokusai, which in turn influenced Munakata; the influence really travelled full circle within artistic circles in the 19th and 20thcenturies.
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