Mt. Aso
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
Typical Price
$500–$8,000. Common later works: $500–$2,000. Key value factors: Hagiwara's abstract works are collected by both Japanese print and modern art collectors.
$500–$8,000. Common later works: $500–$2,000. Key value factors: Hagiwara's abstract works are collected by both Japanese print and modern art collectors.
Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture — the world's largest active volcanic caldera, its five volcanic peaks surrounding an inhabited caldera floor — provided Hagiwara with a subject uniquely combining natural grandeur and geological extremity. The mountain's active craters, which periodically fill with bright blue acid lakes and emit sulfurous steam, gave the landscape a quality of barely contained geological violence. Hagiwara's treatment uses his carved surfaces to render the mountain's combination of serene pastoral exterior and the volcanic energy visible in its crater zones.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Mt. Aso was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄).
Mt. Aso depicts mountains.
