A Steel Bridge
- Medium:
- Woodblock print on paper
- Source:
- manual-research
Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
A steel bridge spanning a waterway, its industrial geometry of riveted girders and triangulated trusses rendered in woodblock on paper by Fujimaki Yoshio. The subject places this print squarely in the modernist camp of sosaku hanga artists who found aesthetic excitement in the structures of industrialized Japan rather than in traditional scenic beauty. A steel bridge offered everything a graphic artist could want: strong diagonal lines, repeating structural patterns, dramatic scale contrasts between massive beams and the human figures or vehicles crossing below. Fujimaki translates cold engineering into warm woodblock texture, the printed wood grain softening the metal subject.
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.
A Steel Bridge was created by Fujimaki Yoshio (藤牧義夫).
A Steel Bridge depicts landscapes and bridges.
