SHIROIKI AKEBONO (White tree dawn)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
Description
"White tree dawn" (SHIROIKI AKEBONO) brings together Kitaoka's two great landscape subjects: the white-barked tree and the moment of dawn. The title compounds two Japanese words that each carry independent resonance — shiroiki (white-barked) and akebono (dawn) — to create a compound subject whose visual logic is the white of the tree's bark against the pale, pre-light sky of earliest morning. The composition would render these as a study in closely related values: tree-white and sky-white differentiated only by texture and slightly different temperature of light.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
SHIROIKI AKEBONO (White tree dawn) was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
SHIROIKI AKEBONO (White tree dawn) depicts night scenes and trees.