Catalog record · 目録番号 106174
Bamboo
Catalog note / 解説
Monday, 9 May 2005 Bamboo by Ohno Bakufu. Ohno combines his talent for plant depiction with an abstraction of line to give us this remarkable woodblock. He removes four mature and three young bamboo plants from the confusion of the forest habitant and places them in an indefinite space. His severely limited pallette, curvilinear columns, and absence of a horizon line take a common place landscape and move it into the extraordinary. The dark green of the mature plants is unbroken by black keyblock lines. Because of this, the leaves and thin branches have a watercolor look. The brown splashes of ground cover definitely look like watercolor strokes. Ohno does the young bamboo in a very differe…
Image record / 画像情報
JAODB · 1949 · jaodb
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