Moaning Moon
- Medium:
- Mixed media collage on board
- Image courtesy of
- Artsy
Description
A collaged composition on a mustard-and-grey ground, built from panels of printed Japanese calligraphic text pasted over a warm ochre field with a pale circular moon shape at upper left. A helmeted samurai figure with an upturned moustache and topknot stands right of centre in a patterned kimono, one hand on his hip and the other resting near a sheathed sword at his waist; an identical but inverted (upside-down) copy of the same figure's head and shoulders is collaged at the upper left, overlapping the moon. Muted browns, ochres, and greys dominate, with fine black linework throughout; signed "P. Furneaux" in the lower right corner.
More Prints by Paul Furneaux
More Moonlight Prints
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)"
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
Evening Moon at Nakanoshima, Sapporo (Sapporo Nakanoshima no yuzuki), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan, Eastern Japan Edition (Nihon fukei shu higashi Nihon hen)"
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Matsushima in Moonlight (Tsuki no Matsushima)
1919
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Kiyozumi Garden in Moonlight
January 1938
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Frequently Asked Questions
Moaning Moon was created by Paul Furneaux.
Moaning Moon depicts moonlight and night scenes.