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Travels with the Master: Acropolis - Night (Meishou To No Tabi: Acropolis no yoru) by Paul Binnie — Japanese Woodblock print

Travels with the Master: Acropolis - Night (Meishou To No Tabi: Acropolis no yoru)

by Paul Binnie

Contemporary Mokuhanga
Night Scenes
Bokashi
Medium:
Woodblock print
Format:
Oban

Description

From the Travels with the Master series, this night print of the Acropolis in Athens translates the ancient Greek monument into the visual vocabulary of shin-hanga landscape. At night, the Acropolis is illuminated against a dark sky, its Pentelic marble taking on a warm golden glow — a quality that Binnie's bokashi gradations would render with the same atmospheric subtlety he brings to Japanese nocturnal scenes. The "Travels with the Master" series consistently finds in non-Japanese subjects the same atmospheric conditions that the Japanese printmaking tradition has always found most compelling.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Travels with the Master: Acropolis - Night (Meishou To No Tabi: Acropolis no yoru) was created by Paul Binnie.

Travels with the Master: Acropolis - Night (Meishou To No Tabi: Acropolis no yoru) uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.

Travels with the Master: Acropolis - Night (Meishou To No Tabi: Acropolis no yoru) depicts night scenes.