Snow landscape
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
Description
"Snow Landscape" presents the Japanese countryside under snow as an abstract visual subject as much as a representational one — the white covering that flattens and simplifies the landscape into broad masses, sharp shadows, and the occasional dark accent of tree trunk or roof edge. Okuyama's snow landscapes are among his most compositionally concentrated works: the reduced palette of white, grey, and the dark of shadows and vegetation forces a formal clarity that his more colorfully complex subjects did not always demand. Snow made him a more rigorous composer.
More Prints by Gihachiro Okuyama
More Landscapes Prints
Lake Kugushi in Wakasa Province (Wakasa Kugushiko), from the series Souvenirs of Travel I (Tabi miyage dai isshu)"
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Autumn Maple Leaves at Takao, from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei)
Woodblock print
The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen)"
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Tea Kettle, section of a sheet from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces" (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami)
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Snow landscape was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).
Snow landscape depicts landscapes and snow scenes.