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Red Monochromatic Abstract Woodblock Monoprint of a Web of Trees Landscape by Joichi Hoshi — Japanese Monoprint; woodcut print, 1974

Red Monochromatic Abstract Woodblock Monoprint of a Web of Trees Landscape

by Joichi Hoshi

Contemporary MokuhangaSōsaku-hanga
LandscapesNatureTreesAbstract
Date:
1974
Medium:
Monoprint; woodcut print
Image courtesy of
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Description

A dense, all-over abstract composition of interlacing tree branches rendered in deep red and crimson, with a mottled network of thinner golden-orange and ochre lines woven through the branches for contrast, set against small patches of dark olive-green visible at the upper edges. The print fills the rectangular sheet edge to edge with no horizon, sky, or figures, creating a flattened, tangled thicket pattern; it is pencil-signed and dated in the lower right margin. Joichi Hoshi, *Red Monochromatic Abstract Woodblock Monoprint of a Web of Trees Landscape*, 1974, monoprint/woodcut.

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Red Monochromatic Abstract Woodblock Monoprint of a Web of Trees Landscape was created by Joichi Hoshi (星襄一) in 1974.

Red Monochromatic Abstract Woodblock Monoprint of a Web of Trees Landscape depicts landscapes, nature, and trees.