Kawase Hasui — Autumn in Funatsu | Japanese Woodblock Print (Shin Hanga)

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Kawase Hasui — Autumn in Funatsu | 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 textile design

produced some of the most visually refined images in the history of art — intimate in scale but monumental in ambition

in five versions) became one of the defining images of 19th-century Symbolism — a vision of funerary mystery so compelling that it was owned by Sigmund Freud

His ocean wave compositions bring together the traditional Japanese representation of water — the crashing

Working in a tradition that connects Félicien Rops and Francisco Goya to Expressionism

and the New Woman

A regular exhibitor at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery

Working almost entirely in pen-and-ink with washes of grey and brown

dance halls

Uehara Konen (1878–1940) was a Japanese Shin Hanga printmaker associated with the movement's seascape and nature subjects

Lyubov Popova (1889–1924) was a Russian Constructivist artist whose dynamic compositions — intersecting planes

defined a certain idea of New York glamour that has never left the cultural imagination

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