Kawase Hasui — Lake Hachirogata Japanese Woodblock | Japanese Woodblock Print (Shin Hanga)

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Kawase Hasui — Lake Hachirogata Japanese Woodblock | 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 ideological messaging

Félix Del Marle (1889–1952) was a French painter and dedicated proponent of Neo-Plasticism — the movement founded by Mondrian and Van Doesburg that reduced art to horizontal and vertical lines in primary colours

and blue — combine lyrical abstraction with geometric rigour and remain touchstones for collectors of modernist art

and quiet light

architecture

formal daring

His early painting Night is among the most atmospheric images of the Dutch fin-de-siècle tradition

His Moorish portraits — studies of individual men and women in their domestic and religious environments — have a directness and psychological depth that sets them apart from the fantasy Orientalism of his Parisian contemporaries

Jean Delville (1867–1953) was a Belgian Symbolist painter

Inspired by the great flower markets of New York

strange heads

her influence on 20th-century American art is immeasurable

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