Kawase Hasui — Fuji Mountain Print | Japanese Woodblock Print (Shin Hanga)

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Kawase Hasui — Fuji Mountain Print | Japanese Woodblock Print (Shin Hanga)Kawase Hasui (18831957) was a master of shin hanga, the revolutionary "new woodblock" movement that transformed Japanese printmaking in the 20th century. Hasui is celebrated for his luminous night scenesmoonlit temples, rain soaked streets, nocturnal water landscapeseach rendered with atmospheric depth and subtle color that evoke mood over mere representation. His works epitomize shin hanga's marriage of traditional ukiyo e technique with modernist

and scraps were assembled into collages of surprising beauty

animals that seem to be thinking

producing works of lyrical line and gestural freedom that occupy a unique space between European modernism and American expressionism

is among his most powerful calligraphic works

now held in the Rijksmuseum

A Bauhaus master

His works — slave markets

not studied

celebrated for his richly saturated floral studies

Paul Klee (1879–1940) was a Swiss-German painter and one of the most theoretically rigorous and playfully inventive artists of the 20th century

where it has hung ever since

founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar