Imagination 47
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$200–$1,500. Common prints: $200–$500. Key value factors: Amano's prints are affordably priced and accessible.
Imagination 47 belongs to one of Amano's more open-ended series, its title inviting the viewer to engage actively with the abstract composition rather than seeking literal subject matter. The forty-seventh variation in a series about imagination itself suggests a sustained meditation on the generative capacity of the human mind — each print is both an example of imagination at work and an invitation to imagine. Amano's geometric compositions in this series may be more freely associative than his more rigorous Enclosure and Fossil works.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Imagination 47 was created by Amano Kunihiro (天野邦弘).
Imagination 47 depicts landscapes and abstract.
