Man Drawn in Red
- 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.
Man Drawn in Red is a woodblock print that foregrounds its own process in its title: the man is not simply depicted but drawn, and specifically drawn in a single dominant color. The red pervades the figure, defining its form through a hue associated with vitality, danger, and the body's own interior. Nakao Yoshitaka uses the monochromatic constraint to test what a single color can communicate about a human subject, the red functioning simultaneously as flesh tone, emotional register, and formal decision. The title's emphasis on the act of drawing connects the print to the hand of the artist rather than to the identity of the subject.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Man Drawn in Red was created by Nakao Yoshitaka (中尾義隆).
Man Drawn in Red depicts figures and portraits.
![[Grey Figure Posing] by Nakao Yoshitaka](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/135848.jpg)
