Sunscape
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- robynbuntin
Typical Price
$200–$1,500. Common prints: $200–$500. Key value factors: Sawada's prints are affordably priced and accessible to collectors.
$200–$1,500. Common prints: $200–$500. Key value factors: Sawada's prints are affordably priced and accessible to collectors.
"Sunscape" is a woodblock print by Sawada Tetsuro that turns attention skyward to focus on solar light and its effects on the visible world. Where "Nightscape" and "Cloudscape" in Sawada's body of work explore darkness and atmospheric form, "Sunscape" addresses direct illumination as subject matter. The woodblock medium, which builds images through layered overprinting, offers a natural parallel to the way sunlight accumulates and intensifies across surfaces. Sawada's approach likely balances warm, saturated tones against areas of bleached-out brightness, capturing the paradox of sunlight that simultaneously reveals and overwhelms. The "-scape" suffix that recurs across multiple titles in Sawada's work signals his ongoing project of treating natural phenomena as landscape subjects worthy of sustained artistic investigation, each one demanding its own formal vocabulary.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Sunscape was created by Sawada Tetsuro (澤田哲朗).
Sunscape depicts landscapes and abstract.
