Breton Landscape
- Date:
- c. 1913
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Description
Made around 1913 during Yamamoto's sojourn in France, this woodblock print records the countryside of Brittany with a visual language shaped by both Japanese craft and French post-Impressionism. The Breton landscape, with its windswept fields, stone walls, and low horizons, offered Yamamoto subject matter strikingly different from the Japanese scenery that dominated the print world he had left behind. His handling of the terrain favors broad tonal areas over fine detail, compressing the depth of the landscape into the flat surface of the print. The work documents a formative period when Yamamoto was absorbing European artistic ideas that would fuel the sosaku-hanga movement upon his return to Japan.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Breton Landscape was created by Kanae Yamamoto (山本鼎) in c. 1913.
Breton Landscape depicts landscapes.