Hanami no saku (Tanizaki Utauta Hangasaku) by Shikō Munakata
£55.00
花見の柵(谷崎歌々板画柵)
Four ladies enjoy a traditional Japanese tea ceremony under blooming sakura cherry blossoms in Saga, Kyoto. The print has a gorgeous spectrum of colours, the gorgeous pinks and reds of the flowers, the bold yellow and blues in the kimonos, finished beautifully with the recognisable harsh black lines of Munakata’s woodblock
.
An exquisite lithograph produced on a very textural Japanese ‘washi’ paper, published by Yasukawa as part of their collaborative calendar project.
Dimensions: 31 x 33 cm Original Printing Date: 1956, (Litho printing date: 2020) 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.
Hanami no saku (Tanizaki Utauta Hangasaku) by Shikō Munakata
£55.00
花見の柵(谷崎歌々板画柵)
Four ladies enjoy a traditional Japanese tea ceremony under blooming sakura cherry blossoms in Saga, Kyoto. The print has a gorgeous spectrum of colours, the gorgeous pinks and reds of the flowers, the bold yellow and blues in the kimonos, finished beautifully with the recognisable harsh black lines of Munakata’s woodblock
.
An exquisite lithograph produced on a very textural Japanese ‘washi’ paper, published by Yasukawa as part of their collaborative calendar project.
Dimensions: 31 x 33 cm
Original Printing Date: 1956, (Litho printing date: 2020)
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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