Shuzenji in Rain Art Print by Hasui Gallery Wall Nico Tracey - Graphic Interventions geometric language

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The blossoms themselves are painted with a slow attentiveness rarely seen in his more turbulent canvases

layered sky

and the overall effect is of an elegant inventory

using flat colour fields and sharp silhouettes to create tension between structure and abstraction

Shuzenji in Rain Art Print by Hasui Gallery Wall Nico Tracey - Graphic Interventions geometric languageShuzenji in Rain is one of Hasui Kawase's most atmospheric compositions a narrow street slicked with rain, warm lantern light bleeding into wet stone while figures move beneath umbrellas through the darkness. The vertical format concentrates the scene's intimacy, and the palette of deep indigo, amber, and silvered grey captures that particular quality of light unique to rainy evenings in traditional Japanese towns. It is shin hanga at its most