Mountain
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
A mountain viewed straight-on, stripped to its essential silhouette and internal color gradations — this is Kitaoka at his most formally direct. The mountain's shape, its characteristic outline, its geological character rendered in the woodblock's clean-edged forms, without the framing devices or atmospheric mediation of traditional landscape. The simply titled "Mountain" announces its subject without elaboration, the print itself making the case that the mountain's form is sufficient subject for sustained visual attention.
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.
Mountain was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
Mountain depicts landscapes and mountains.
