SAITO Kiyoshi创作的日本版画《Ryoanji, Kyoto (B)》

艺术家：SAITO Kiyoshi

标题：Ryoanji, Kyoto (B)

日期：1960

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来源：Worcester Art Museum
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Saito was a Western-style oil painter, raised in rural Hokkaido. His self-taught, experimental woodblock-printing skills gradually brought him fame as a print artist. In 1943, while working at Asahi Newspaper Company in Tokyo, Saito met Onchi Koshiro and was invited to join the Japan Print Association and attend monthly gatherings held at the master's house. In the late 1940s and 50s, Americans traveling to Japan were enchanted by Saito's prints of Japanese temples, such as this composition of the stone garden at Ryoan-ji, which they felt captured the essence of their own experiences. In 1951, a Saito print also took first prize over painted and sculpted works at the São Paolo Biennale in Brazil. This stunning achievement awakened the Japanese art establishment and brought prominence to the Creative Print Movement. An admirer of the expressive works of Munch and Gauguin as well as the abstract works of Onchi and Mondrian, Saito rendered gardens and architecture with his interplay of bold, flat shapes filled with austere, textured colors. Several printings of the same color achieved depth of tone, while plywood-blocks faced with different types of special woods created varying "grain-printing" effects.

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