Nostalgia in Blue, Shôwa period, dated 1968
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Harvard Art Museums
Description
"Nostalgia in Blue," dated 1968, is one of Tajima's most directly emotive works, using blue — the color of sky, water, distance, and melancholy — as the dominant chromatic register for the feeling of nostalgia itself. Cool blues suffuse the composition in soft, graduated fields, creating a mood of reflective longing that is felt before it is named. The work belongs to his late 1960s period, when his international profile was established and he was exploring the emotional registers of his abstract language.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Nostalgia in Blue, Shôwa period, dated 1968 was created by Hiroyuki Tajima (田島博之).
Nostalgia in Blue, Shôwa period, dated 1968 depicts landscapes and abstract.