Description
Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) is regarded as the most Jap panorama print artist of the 20 th century. His paintings is characterised by way of a fascination with mild, climatic prerequisites and quietness. His oeuvre is composed of over 700 designs of which the biggest percentage was once produced for the initiator of the Shin hanga (‘new print’) motion, Watanabe Shôzaburô. This e-newsletter illustrates his oeuvre in colour together with all of the designs he produced for different publishers. The illustrations are predominantly taken from the 2 biggest collections of Hasui prints on the planet: the collections of Robert O. Muller, now housed within the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Artwork, and the Watanabe circle of relatives. This bilingual e-newsletter contains essays by way of Kendall Brown and Shôichirô Watanabe, facsimiles of seals and signatures and a bibliography.
Originally printed in 2003, this groundbreaking e-newsletter at the existence and paintings of Kawase Hasui is now to be had with a DVD, which incorporates a Nineteen Fifties movie at the artist and the manufacturing of considered one of his designs, a procedure ebook exhibiting all ranges within the advent of a Jap woodblock print, and designs which were found out considering the fact that 2003.
