Rainy Landscape
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Description
Rain falls through a landscape of extraordinary atmospheric depth — the foreground wet and glistening, the middle distance softened by the rain curtain, the background dissolved into grey-green mist where land and sky become indistinguishable. Shotei's rainy landscape compositions used the bokashi technique to capture the quality of visual experience in heavy rain, where the constant motion of falling water reduced the world to a series of overlapping tonal zones. The subject was a staple of his practice precisely because rain enabled the most atmospheric effects the woodblock medium could produce.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Rainy Landscape was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
Rainy Landscape uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
Rainy Landscape was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Rainy Landscape depicts landscapes and rain.