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Blushed  by Alexia Vogel — Japanese Oil on Canvas, 2015

Blushed

by Alexia Vogel

Date:
2015
Medium:
Oil on Canvas
Image courtesy of
Artsy

Description

This image is an abstract oil painting, not a Japanese print — worth flagging before I write a "print catalog" description, since it doesn't match the framing.

What's actually visible: A mottled cluster of red/crimson dabs, resembling scattered petals or drips, concentrated across the top edge and both sides of the canvas, thinning toward a pale cream-white void in the upper-center. Below, a diffuse dark teal-green stain bleeds upward from the lower portion, blurring into the white space with soft, watercolor-like edges. The overall composition is symmetrical top-to-bottom with no discernible figures, architecture, or linework — it reads as a non-representational color-field/stain piece.

Given the medium (Oil on Canvas, 2015) and the abstract, non-figurative content, this doesn't match a woodblock print in any respect — no line work, no flat color blocks, no printed texture, no traditional Japanese subject matter. If this image is attached to a Hanga artwork record, it looks like a data mismatch (wrong image file or wrong artwork entry) rather than something to catalog as ukiyo-e. Want me to write the factual description anyway, or would it be more useful to check which artwork record this file is linked to?

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Blushed was created by Alexia Vogel in 2015.