Crescent
- Date:
- 2017
- Medium:
- Collaged woodcut on museum board
- Image courtesy of
- Artsy
Description
An abstract composition of small rectangular and trapezoidal collaged paper fragments arranged to form a glowing crescent-shaped arc against a muted grey-brown ground; the arc's fragments shift through pale yellow, coral, teal, and soft blue tones that brighten toward a luminous white-gold center. The surrounding pieces are cut in irregular, angular shapes suggesting a fractured or faceted surface, with the overall effect of a radiant curved band of light emerging from a shadowed field. Takuji Hamanaka's *Crescent* (2017) is a collaged woodcut on museum board.
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Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)"
1947
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Evening Moon at Nakanoshima, Sapporo (Sapporo Nakanoshima no yuzuki), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan, Eastern Japan Edition (Nihon fukei shu higashi Nihon hen)"
March 1933
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Matsushima in Moonlight (Tsuki no Matsushima)
1919
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Kiyozumi Garden in Moonlight
January 1938
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Frequently Asked Questions
Crescent was created by Takuji Hamanaka (浜中拓司) in 2017.
Crescent depicts moonlight.