Hiroshi Yoshida — Set of 2 India Prints | Japanese Woodblock Art Print (Shin Hanga)

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Hiroshi Yoshida — Set of 2 India Prints | Japanese Woodblock Art Print (Shin Hanga)Hiroshi Yoshida (18761950) was the preeminent Ssaku hanga (creative print) artist of the 20th century and one of the great Japanese printmakers of any era an artist whose self carved, self printed woodblocks achieved a level of technical and atmospheric mastery unequalled in the tradition. His India series prints made during his travels through the subcontinent brought to Japanese printmaking a new subject: the temples, rivers, and human presence of

They are documents of place and time as much as works of art

and observing rendered with tender observation and a refined woodblock technique

printmaker

his illustrations remain the definitive images of early 20th-century luxury and style

assemblage

flowering fields — reveal an equally extraordinary painter who sought in nature the same visual density and pattern as in his figure work

medieval-inspired figures

graphic authority

Ludwig Deutsch (1855–1935) was an Austrian Orientalist painter who made Cairo his second home and devoted his career to documenting Egyptian and Ottoman architecture

His nature studies — roses

and Cold War cultural diplomacy

Carl Larsson (1853–1919) was a Swedish painter whose watercolour images of his family home at Sundborn — children in sunny rooms

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