Paradise (Rakuen)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- mfa
$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.
Paradise (Rakuen) — the concept of an idealized state of existence free from suffering and limitation — was rendered by Hagiwara through the abstract compositional language he developed over his career, the paradisiacal condition suggested through color, light, and the quality of the carved surface rather than through any specific iconographic program. The title's combination of the Western "Paradise" and the Japanese "Rakuen" placed the print at the intersection of two cultural traditions for imagining the ideal, Hagiwara synthesizing them in his own visual vocabulary.
Kamakura Daibutsu
1930
Color woodblock print
1950
Color woodblock print
大仏
Woodblock print
1926
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Paradise (Rakuen) was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄).
Paradise (Rakuen) depicts religious and abstract.
