Haniwa Doll (B)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Description
The Haniwa Doll (B) variant shows Saito working through the range of haniwa figure types—warrior figures, female attendants, seated shamans, animals—treating each as a distinct formal problem within a consistent conceptual framework. The ancient sculptors who made these figures were solving the same problem Saito confronted: how to represent a human being in reduced three-dimensional form with minimal means, achieving presence without detailed naturalism.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Haniwa Doll (B) was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Haniwa Doll (B) depicts figures, religious, and still life.