Ohara Koson — Waterlilies | Shin Hanga Print

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Ohara Koson — Waterlilies | Shin Hanga PrintOhara Koson (18771945) was the supreme master of kach ga the Japanese art of bird and flower prints and the most beloved name in the Shin Hanga movement. Working with publisher Watanabe Shzabur, he produced hundreds of prints of birds, blossoms, and small creatures rendered with extraordinary delicacy and emotional restraint. His works spare, luminous, perfectly observed remain the most collectable of all Shin Hanga prints and are held in major museum

simplicity

Klimt's work commands some of the highest prices ever achieved at auction and remains among the most reproduced art of the 20th century

he brought an exceptional gift for pattern

a technique that produced some of the most joyful and formally radical images of the modern era

Torii Kiyomasu (active early 18th century) was one of the founding masters of the Torii school — the artists who defined the visual language of Edo kabuki theatre and produced some of the earliest and most dramatically powerful ukiyo-e prints

formal daring

rich shadow

Sadanobu Hasegawa (1881–1963) was a Japanese printmaker associated with the Shin Hanga movement

Itten — redefined how colour

he used light with almost architectural precision to create spaces of extraordinary psychological tension

and white in a composition of aristocratic elegance

defined a certain idea of New York glamour that has never left the cultural imagination

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