Veil
- Date:
- 2018
- Medium:
- Mokuhanga (woodblock print)
- Dimensions:
- 35.6 × 25.4 cm
- Image courtesy of
- Artist website
Description
Veil (2018) is a mokuhanga landscape in which translucency is both subject and technique. The title evokes atmosphere — morning mist over water, a scrim of rain across a tree line, the diffuse light of an overcast sky — and Brodbeck's water-based pigments on dampened washi are particularly suited to rendering such optical phenomena. Thin, successive washes of pigment pressed through the baren accumulate into a soft atmospheric haze rather than a hard-edged image, with forms barely distinguishable from the surrounding tonal field. The 2018 date aligns Veil with Loop from the same year, suggesting a period of sustained investigation into atmospheric and translucent landscape imagery.
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The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen)"
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Veil was created by Mary Brodbeck in 2018.
Veil depicts landscapes.
Veil measures 35.6 × 25.4 cm.