Cloud Patterns - 風もよう
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Ohmi Gallery
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.
This composition is titled "Cloud Patterns" but carries the Japanese subtitle 風もよう (kazemoyō, "wind patterns") — a revealing pairing that suggests for Nakajima Kiyoshi, clouds and wind are aspects of the same atmospheric phenomenon. Clouds are wind made visible at a larger scale: the shapes and movements of clouds record the patterns of upper-atmospheric wind in the same way that moving grass records wind at ground level. His characteristic interest in making the invisible visible finds in cloud patterns a subject at the boundary between wind and water, between air and earth.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Cloud Patterns - 風もよう was created by Nakajima Kiyoshi (中島潔).
Cloud Patterns - 風もよう depicts landscapes, figures, and abstract.
