Breaking Dawn
- Date:
- 2017
- Medium:
- Acrylic on canvas
- Image courtesy of
- Artsy
Description
"Breaking Dawn" (2017) by Asako Iwasawa, acrylic on canvas, is a wide horizontal composition of dense tangled foliage and vines silhouetted in near-black green against a pale yellow-green dawn sky, with a small dark insect and faint moon-like orb suspended above. Three clusters of stylized orchid-like blossoms in cream, coral-orange, and blue-violet punctuate the dark greenery, their petals rendered with sharp linear detail against the softer atmospheric gradient behind them. The palette shifts from muted sage and butter-yellow at the horizon to deep blackish greens and touches of crimson in the tangled undergrowth below.
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1921
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![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
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Frequently Asked Questions
Breaking Dawn was created by Asako Iwasawa (岩澤麻子) in 2017.
Breaking Dawn depicts night scenes.