The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 23, 2024
Maiko (an apprentice geisha), Kyoto
1960
(1907–1997)
Location: not on view
Description
Twentieth-century Japanese printmakers often exploit the grain of the woodblock to create striated patterns within the work. Saito, like his mentors Edvard Munch and Paul Gauguin before him, incorporated into the image the texture inherent in the woodblock. Saito reduced form to simple, flat shapes, achieving abstracted, strong compositions printed in only a few muted earth tones. Saito was the first modern Japanese printmaker to win an award abroad at the First Biennial Exhibition of the Modern Art Museum in Saõ Paulo, Brazil, in 1951. This international recognition helped to establish the legitimacy of the sosaku-hanga printmaking movement.- Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; December 12, 2004- April 10, 2005. "Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections".A Tradition Transformed: Japanese Prints, 1947-1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 24, 1988).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1985.394