Dream- oban
by Saito Kaoru
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
by Saito Kaoru
$200–$1,500. Common prints: $200–$500. Key value factors: Saito Kaoru's prints are modestly priced and accessible to beginning collectors of Japanese creative prints.
The [oban](/glossary/oban)-format woodblock print takes its title from the elusive subject of dreaming, a state of consciousness where logic dissolves and imagery floats free of narrative constraint. Saito's rendering translates the dream state into visual terms through forms that may hover between recognition and abstraction, figures or objects that resist fixed identification. The oban format, approximately 25 by 38 centimeters, provides a standard vertical canvas that has served Japanese printmakers for centuries, and Saito's use of it connects this psychologically modern subject to a deep tradition of format and scale. The woodblock technique's layered printing process, building an image through successive overlapping impressions, mirrors the way dream content accumulates from fragments.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Dream- oban was created by Saito Kaoru (斎藤薫).
Dream- oban depicts figures and abstract.
