Kawase Hasui — Dusk at Aso: Vintage Japanese Woodblock | Japanese Woodblock Print (Shin Hanga)

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Kawase Hasui — Dusk at Aso: Vintage 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

László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) was a Hungarian-born artist

We print on Hahnemühle German Etching paper — the same stock museum studios use — through a twelve-ink process that holds colour the way memory holds detail: precisely

perfectly observed

liberated from description

The glaze is so clear it disappears

Angrand was intimate: his charcoal drawings in particular — tender

Edward Hopper (1882–1967) was the defining painter of American solitude — the artist who found in hotel rooms

blending traditional ukiyo-e techniques with modernist sensibility

Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) was the founding president of the Vienna Secession and the defining voice of Symbolist Art Nouveau

and the Chester Beatty Library — it is the most visually distinctive of all surviving early Quran manuscripts and one of the supreme achievements of Islamic calligraphic art

represent the apex of Persian court painting

Where Seurat was monumental and Signac was bold

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