People of Fire Mountain
- Date:
- 1980
- Medium:
- Color woodcut
- Image courtesy of
- Artsy
Description
Six stylized, mask-like human faces with elongated grey heads, dark almond eyes, and red mouths are clustered beneath an erupting volcano rendered in blocky planes of green, brown, and red with white smoke rising from its red crater. The composition is bordered by two solid black vertical bands against a flat turquoise-blue background, giving the print a bold, graphic quality typical of the woodcut medium. Umetaro Azechi's 1980 color woodcut "People of Fire Mountain" is pencil-signed and numbered in the lower margin.
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Frequently Asked Questions
People of Fire Mountain was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎) in 1980.
People of Fire Mountain depicts landscapes, figures, and mountains.