Landscape with Farm
- Date:
- 1942
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Dimensions:
- 34.3 × 44.5 cm
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
The 1942 Landscape with Farm is among Saito's earliest dateable works—made in his mid-thirties as he was establishing the formal approach that would make his reputation. The farmscape subject places him squarely in the sosaku-hanga movement's interest in ordinary Japanese life, but his treatment already shows the reductive tendency: fields rendered as flat planes of color, the farm buildings simplified to their essential mass, the whole composition structured through geometric relationships rather than atmospheric observation.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Landscape with Farm was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清) in 1942.
Landscape with Farm depicts landscapes.
Landscape with Farm measures 34.3 × 44.5 cm.