Shiro Kasamatsu — Statement Duo | Rain & Evening at Shinobazu Pond | Japanese Art Print

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Shiro Kasamatsu — Statement Duo | Rain & Evening at Shinobazu Pond | Japanese Art PrintShiro Kasamatsu (18981991) was one of the leading landscape printmakers of the Shin Hanga movement an artist whose nocturnal urban scenes, rain soaked avenues, and moonlit ponds brought an entirely contemporary Japanese sensibility to the woodblock tradition. His works, particularly his blue nocturnes of Tokyo landmarks, stand among the most atmospheric images of 20th century Japanese printmaking. Printed as a museum grade gicle on Hahnemhle fine art

bold silhouettes

His clean flat colours

Its illustrated manuscripts

his art maintained an extraordinary consistency of intent: to create an art of pleasure

and an urgency that was meant to be felt before it was read

Together they represent the full range of the Japanese crane tradition

The work on this page stopped you for a reason

Inspired by the great flower markets of New York

economical in form

and Mughal periods exhibit an extraordinary range of scripts — Kufic

but because of what you feel

From his Fauvist canvases of St