Buddhist statue
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Description
The Buddhist statue—its specific iconography unrecorded but the handling unmistakably Saito's—appears here as an object of pure formal meditation. His engagement with Buddhist sculpture was less devotional than artistic: these images fascinated him as solutions to a problem he shared, how to render a human form in such a way that it transcends individual personality and becomes an emblem of universal experience. His woodblock solutions are mirror images of the sculptors' own reductive ambitions.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Buddhist statue was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Buddhist statue depicts religious.