MI (fruit)

MI — Fruit — a still-life composition depicting fruit in Kimura's contemporary woodblock style. Fruit subjects in Japanese art drew on both the native tradition of seasonal produce representation and the Western still-life genre that became influential in Japanese painting after the Meiji period. Kimura's graphic approach to the fruit subject reduces the organic forms to their essential shapes and colors — the round mass of an apple, the clustered roundness of grapes, the elongated form of a persimmon — in a composition of graphic economy.