City Gate
by Keiko Minami
- Date:
- 1967
- Medium:
- Etching with aquatint, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions:
- 50.8 × 37.8 cm
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Description
An etching with aquatint from 1967 depicting a city gate, one of Keiko Minami's explorations of architectural thresholds and enclosed spaces. Minami, who spent much of her career in Paris after studying at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, developed a vocabulary of delicate, almost dreamlike imagery rendered through fine etched lines and soft aquatint tones. The city gate becomes an image of passage and boundary, its stone or brick form standing between the known and the beyond. Minami's treatment likely reduces the structure to essential contours, surrounded by her signature open, luminous space.
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Frequently Asked Questions
City Gate was created by Keiko Minami (南桂子) in 1967.
City Gate uses Etching, on etching with aquatint, ink and color on paper.
City Gate depicts urban scenes and architecture.
City Gate measures 50.8 × 37.8 cm.