Mandala No. 1
- Date:
- 1998
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions:
- 22 × 32 cm
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Description
Mandala No. 1 (1998) represents a late-career engagement with the sacred diagram that had been central to East Asian Buddhist devotional practice for over a millennium. The mandala — a geometric representation of the cosmic order, centered on a deity and surrounded by concentric zones of sacred geography — provided Hagiwara with a subject where the abstract and the spiritual were inseparable. His carved woodblock surfaces, already developed over decades to suggest cosmic texture and depth, were particularly suited to rendering the mandala's layered complexity.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Mandala No. 1 was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄) in 1998.
Mandala No. 1 depicts religious and abstract.
Mandala No. 1 measures 22 × 32 cm.