Kawase Hasui — Winter Scene Print: Japanese Woodblock Art, Inokashira Benten Shrine | Japanese Woodblock Print (Shin Hanga)

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Kawase Hasui — Winter Scene Print: Japanese Woodblock Art, Inokashira Benten Shrine | 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

Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass

and virtually every colour-forward movement that followed is incalculable

and performers immortalised in posters

Saul Bass's poster for Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder (1959) is a masterwork of graphic design: a dismembered body rendered as a flat paper cutout in jazz-club black and white

known for his delicate studies of birds and animals rendered with naturalistic observation and graceful brushwork

Odilon Redon (1840–1916) was the supreme French Symbolist painter — the artist who explored the border between the visible and the visionary with an intensity and formal invention unmatched in his generation

it dissolved the boundary between fine art and functional design

and a new interest in individual characterisation that produced some of the most psychologically penetrating portraits of the pre-modern world

His richly gilded

Persian carpet

and empty streets the visual language of modern alienation and interior life

introduced jazz rhythm into his grid and remain among the most collected works of 20th-century modernism

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