Flying Away
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
A bird, animal, or figure flying away from the viewer — the composition centered on the act of departure, the subject moving out of the frame into the space beyond the print. Flying away was a subject that combined the visual dynamics of motion with an emotional register of loss or release, the departing figure or bird leaving behind the space that the print describes. Kimura's contemporary treatment may present this as a bird in flight, a kite ascending, or an abstract expression of upward, outward movement.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Flying Away was created by Kimura Yoshiharu (木村吉晴).
Flying Away depicts birds & flowers, landscapes, and animals.
