Wave
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
Description
A surging swell of water fills the composition, Kitaoka stripping the sea down to its most primal architectural logic: curving planes of force, the compressed white of breaking foam, a darkened trough. Where Hokusai dramatized the wave through minutely observed turbulence, Kitaoka finds its essence in bold, near-geometric masses. The result is less a record of a specific seascape than a distillation of energy itself — the woodblock's capacity for strong, clean line and flat field of color made to serve an almost purely abstract end.
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1940
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Frequently Asked Questions
Wave was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
Wave depicts seascapes.