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Snow by the great masters of Japanese prints.
BOUQUILLARD Jocelyn.

Snow by the great masters of Japanese prints.

Hazan
€35,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 29765
Format 17.2 x 24.6
Détails 236 p., illustrated, paperback, cloth-bound box.
Publication Paris, 2023
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782754112680
A true celebration of snow, this box set, accompanied by an explanatory booklet, displays in an accordion format more than sixty works by the greatest masters of Japanese printmaking. Imbued with poetry and refinement, these images bear witness to the astonishing pictorial virtuosity of artists such as Hokusai, Hiroshige, Harunobu and Hasui, who were able to transcribe the immaculate whiteness of snow in its most subtle nuances, but also to take up this challenge: to paint the absence of color.
Mountain villages buried under snow, temples and pagodas in the cottony solitude of winter, eternal snow on the summit of Fuji... so many views which invite us, in accordance with the very concept of ukiyo-e, to live only in the present moment, to give ourselves entirely to the contemplation of nature.
A true celebration of snow, this box set, accompanied by an explanatory booklet, displays in an accordion format more than sixty works by the greatest masters of Japanese printmaking. Imbued with poetry and refinement, these images bear witness to the astonishing pictorial virtuosity of artists such as Hokusai, Hiroshige, Harunobu and Hasui, who were able to transcribe the immaculate whiteness of snow in its most subtle nuances, but also to take up this challenge: to paint the absence of color.
Mountain villages buried under snow, temples and pagodas in the cottony solitude of winter, eternal snow on the summit of Fuji... so many views which invite us, in accordance with the very concept of ukiyo-e, to live only in the present moment, to give ourselves entirely to the contemplation of nature.