Germinate
- Date:
- 1959
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; edition 3/50
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Yamaguchi's contemplative, semi-abstract style has a niche following. Condition and impression quality are key factors.
Germinate, a color woodblock from 1959 (edition 3 of 50), explores the biological process of germination — the moment when a seed opens and sends its first roots and shoot outward into the world. For Yamaguchi, this biological event carries philosophical weight as a metaphor for beginning, for potential made actual, for the originary moment of growth. His abstract rendering likely captures the explosive directionality of germination — the simultaneous drives downward into soil and upward toward light — in forms that suggest biological urgency.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Germinate was created by Gen Yamaguchi (山口源) in 1959.
Germinate depicts trees and abstract.
![[abstract composition with diagonal woodgrain] by Gen Yamaguchi](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/135949.jpg)
