Niagara Falls
- Date:
- 1925
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Description
Niagara Falls presented Yoshida with a subject of almost theatrical magnitude, and his 1925 print — made during his North American tour — translates the falls' overwhelming volume into the controlled medium of woodblock. Where Western painters tended toward the sublime in depicting Niagara, Yoshida found a way to render the falls' perpetual mist and shifting light through the layered pigment application he had refined over years. The result is a Niagara that feels simultaneously monumental and intimate, the water's movement arrested at a single luminous instant.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Niagara Falls was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1925.
Niagara Falls was published by Yoshida Studio (1925).
Niagara Falls depicts rivers & lakes.