Kawase Hasui — Japanese Woodblock Print: Lakeside Tearoom, Night Rain | Japanese Woodblock Print (Shin Hanga)

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Kawase Hasui — Japanese Woodblock Print: Lakeside Tearoom, Night Rain | Japanese Woodblock Print (Shin Hanga)Kawase Hasui (18831957) was a master of shin hanga, the revolutionary "new woodblock" movement that transformed Japanese printmaking in the 20th century. Hasui is celebrated for his luminous night scenesmoonlit temples, rain soaked streets, nocturnal water landscapeseach rendered with atmospheric depth and subtle color that evoke mood over mere representation. His works epitomize shin hanga's marriage of traditional ukiyo e technique with modernist

and emotional restraint

Nishimura Shigenaga (1697–1756) was one of the key early masters of the Edo-period woodblock print — a printmaker who worked in the period before Harunobu's colour prints and whose compositions laid the formal groundwork for the great flowering of ukiyo-e

Auguste Lepère (1849–1918) was a French painter

is a canonical work of Art Deco graphic design

combine the formal vocabulary of international Art Deco with a distinctly Italian sense of theatrical energy

The Heart — are now among the most iconic and collected prints of the 20th century

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was the originator of purely non-objective painting — the artist who first made a fully abstract work and theorised its spiritual and psychological basis in Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911)

garden parties

Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) was the most celebrated painter of the late Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the leading decorative artist of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement

New York City

His designs apply Swiss International Style rigour — systematic grids

Hotel Room — are among the most recognisable paintings in American art

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