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Flower Garden, 1963
Sadao Watanabe
(Japanese, 1913-1996)
Stencil
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Ward, 1982.355
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Flower Garden, 1963
Watanabe is associated with the Japanese folk art movement that admired traditional crafts, like stencil, for their unpretentiousness. Here, Watanabe employed wrinkled handmade paper, commonly used for book covers and endpapers, to add texture to the broad areas of flat color to emphasize the rough, handcrafted quality of his prints. The unsophisticated, folk-like images allude to early Japanese Buddhist prints, in which black lines, rich color contrasts, and simple naïve forms are paramount. Being a Christian, Watanabe often chose religious themes from the Bible.
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