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Flower Garden

1963

Sadao Watanabe

(Japanese, 1913–1996)
Culture
Japan
Medium
dyed paper stencil
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Ward 1982.355
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
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Description

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 and 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.

Flower Garden

1963

Sadao Watanabe

(Japanese, 1913–1996)
Japan

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