"May - 2" from the early 1960s, worked on embossed paper with ink and color, uses the month as a compositional key — the greenness and growth energy of early May translated into the chromatic and textural vocabulary of Maki Haku's abstract woodblock practice. May in Japan is the month after cherry-blossom season, when fresh green fills the landscape, and his print may engage this lushness as a color experience rather than a landscape view. The embossed paper gives the spring growth theme a tactile dimension.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
May - 2 was created by Maki Haku (巻白) in early 1960s.
May - 2 uses Embossing, on woodblock print, ink and color on embossed paper.
May - 2 depicts spring and abstract.
May - 2 measures 43.5 × 43.7 cm.
