Early Summer
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
Description
"Early Summer" enters the seasonal subject matter that runs as a thread through Tajima's otherwise resolutely abstract practice. The freshness and pale warmth of early summer — the light before heat becomes oppressive, the green before it deepens — are rendered through abstract color relationships rather than botanical or landscape imagery. Pale greens, soft yellows, and open compositional space together evoke a mood and temperature without descriptive representation.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Early Summer was created by Hiroyuki Tajima (田島博之).
Early Summer depicts summer.