
Shojo
- Date:
- 2014
- Medium:
- Woodcut print
- Image courtesy of
- Artsy
Description
A single crouching figure fills the composition in bold black-and-white woodcut lines, its wild, shaggy mane rendered in thick striped strokes and its face reduced to a round, wide-eyed mask-like visage. The body is built from angular black planes broken by triangular and diamond hatching patterns, with one clawed hand raised near the chest; a light, textured washi paper ground shows through as the white ripple and lattice patterns throughout. The print is signed and titled in pencil at lower right, alongside a red seal, on cream handmade paper — consistent with Naoko Matsubara's 2014 woodcut "Shojo."
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Shojo was created by Naoko Matsubara (松原直子) in 2014.



