An exquisite lithograph produced on a very textural Japanese ‘washi’ paper, published by Yasukawa as part of their collaborative calendar project.
This lithograph comes from a set of two prints, Yuzen Suru Nyosha Tachi Dachi (ecstasy in English), which were included in Munakata’s prize winning entry at both the 1955 Sao Paulo Biennale and the 1956 Venice Biennale. “I wanted to represent the feeling of mystical rapture,” says Munakata, and he adds that although the prints are here properly displayed as a pair, their meaning is best understood if one turns the print sideways.
Dimensions: TBC Original Printing Date: 1953 (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.
Yuzen 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.
This lithograph comes from a set of two prints, Yuzen Suru Nyosha Tachi Dachi (ecstasy in English), which were included in Munakata’s prize winning entry at both the 1955 Sao Paulo Biennale and the 1956 Venice Biennale. “I wanted to represent the feeling of mystical rapture,” says Munakata, and he adds that although the prints are here properly displayed as a pair, their meaning is best understood if one turns the print sideways.
Dimensions: TBC
Original Printing Date: 1953 (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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