Steam (Yuge)
by Paul Binnie
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Scholten Japanese Art
Description
"Steam" (Yuge) evokes the specific visual quality of steam rising from hot water — the billowing, translucent vapor that fills a bathhouse or rises from a cup of tea. In the printmaking tradition, steam presents a challenge similar to smoke: how to render the visible-but-transparent, the form that has shape but no solid boundary. Binnie's treatment of steam in woodblock likely employs pale, thin color and partial tonal washes to suggest the rising vapor's quality without over-defining it.
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Steam (Yuge) was created by Paul Binnie.
Steam (Yuge) depicts figures, bijin-ga, and interiors.