Rock garden
- Date:
- 10/70, 1966
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
Description
The karesansui, or dry landscape garden, offered Hashimoto a subject ideally suited to his geometric and architectural sensibilities. Raked gravel patterns and carefully placed stones — reduced to their essential forms — translate directly into the precise carving and flat color areas of his printmaking practice. Produced in 1966 and issued in an edition of ten, this rock garden composition is among his most meditative works, the garden's symbolic compression of landscape into pattern mirroring his own reduction of complex visual reality to essential structure.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Rock garden was created by Okiie Hashimoto (橋本興家) in 10/70, 1966.
Rock garden depicts gardens.