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Floating Shadow (Hyoei) Yellow by Hiroyuki Tajima — Japanese Color woodblock print; edition 3/20, 1964

Floating Shadow (Hyoei) Yellow

by Hiroyuki Tajima

Sōsaku-hanga
Abstract
Date:
1964
Medium:
Color woodblock print; edition 3/20
Edition:
Self-printed

Description

"Floating Shadow (Hyoei) Yellow," 1964, edition 3 of 20, captures one of Tajima's recurring preoccupations: the shadow as presence rather than absence, the cast mark of something that exists just out of the frame. The yellow ground gives the composition warmth and luminosity, against which the "floating" shadows drift without weight or attachment. Hyoei in Japanese can suggest an apparition or drifting figure, lending the print an eerie atmospheric quality.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Floating Shadow (Hyoei) Yellow was created by Hiroyuki Tajima (田島博之) in 1964.

Floating Shadow (Hyoei) Yellow depicts abstract.