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After the Inundation by Brian Williams — Japanese Oil on Dibond, 2025

After the Inundation

by Brian Williams

Date:
2025
Medium:
Oil on Dibond
Image courtesy of
Artsy

Description

This image is not a Japanese print — it appears to be a contemporary abstract painting: concentric rings of color (crimson, pale blue-lavender, olive-yellow) encircling a globe-like sphere with a blue "ocean" and orange-brown "landmass" shapes, set against a radiating yellow sunburst background. There's no woodblock texture, registration marks, or any ukiyo-e/shin-hanga/sosaku-hanga visual characteristic here.

The metadata you gave confirms this: "Brian Williams," 2025, "Oil on Dibond" is a contemporary painting on aluminum composite panel — not a print medium at all, and not attributable to any Japanese printmaking tradition.

Given this is running through the Hanga content-recovery pipeline, I'd flag this as a likely data mismatch (wrong image attached to an artwork row, or unrelated content that leaked into the batch) rather than write a fabricated "Japanese print" description for it. Do you want me to:

  1. Skip/flag this record for manual review, or
  2. Check what artwork row this img.jpg is actually supposed to correspond to?

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After the Inundation was created by Brian Williams in 2025.