Kawase Hasui — Lake Teganuma Japanese Woodblock | Japanese Woodblock Print (Shin Hanga)

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Kawase Hasui — Lake Teganuma Japanese Woodblock | 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

Collected today as both a historical document and a masterpiece of applied political art

he believed pure abstraction could express universal harmony

Bold in colour

Jīngjù) is China's supreme theatrical tradition — a form combining song

His early painting Night is among the most atmospheric images of the Dutch fin-de-siècle tradition

executed with the force and spontaneity that the Rinzai tradition demands

he produced striking compositions of circles

and the open sky define the visual mythology of the region

Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) was the most celebrated painter of the late Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the leading decorative artist of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement

Henri Privat-Livemont (1861–1936) was a Belgian Art Nouveau designer who trained in Paris and returned to Brussels to become one of the movement's most celebrated poster artists

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

the British Library

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