Earth's Surface
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
"Earth's surface" takes as its subject the very ground itself — not landscape viewed from a distance, but the close-up texture and topology of soil, rock, and terrain examined as abstract form. Kitaoka reduces the subject to pattern and color: the varied textures of earth compressed into geometric zones of color, the surface of the world becoming a field of pure mark-making. It is a subject that pushes his landscape practice to its most abstract extreme, where the referent and the formal resolution are nearly indistinguishable.
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.
Earth's Surface was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
Earth's Surface depicts landscapes and abstract.
