Intimacy Black and White
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- japancoll
$300–$3,000. Common folk art prints: $300–$800. Key value factors: Mori's cheerful folk art prints are affordably priced. His stencil technique (kappazuri) is distinctive.
Intimacy — Black and White presents a couple in close proximity, rendered in the stark contrast of the title's palette. The monochrome approach was less characteristic of Mori's typically vivid folk-art colorism and suggests a more experimental or restrained moment in his output. Black and white compositions in the Japanese print tradition carried their own aesthetic weight — the graphic directness of [sumi](/glossary/sumi) ink on white paper having been the foundation of the medium from its earliest origins. This version of the intimacy subject would have relied entirely on line and tonal contrast to carry its emotional content.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Intimacy Black and White was created by Yoshitoshi Mori (森義利).
Intimacy Black and White depicts figures and bijin-ga.
