Dusk (Yugure)
- Date:
- 1957
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$200–$1,500. Common prints: $200–$500. Key value factors: Amano's prints are affordably priced and accessible.
Dusk (Yugure) is a 1957 color woodblock that captures the transitional quality of evening twilight — the moment when day's clarity begins to dissolve into night's complexity. Yugure in Japanese poetic tradition is "the hour when faces can no longer be recognized," a time of social ambiguity and emotional intensification. Amano's abstract treatment of this liminal moment likely uses gradations of warm and cool color to suggest the atmospheric complexity of dusk, the sky's colors shifting from blue through orange to violet as the sun descends.
Woodblock print
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Color woodblock print; oban
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Color woodblock print; oban
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Color woodblock print; oban
Dusk (Yugure) was created by Amano Kunihiro (天野邦弘) in 1957.
Dusk (Yugure) depicts night scenes.
