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the historical and the contemporary folded into a single image
Light and shadow are handled with economy
a night scene built not from darkness but from the accumulated warmth of countless individual strokes of colour
placing this work in dialogue with the meditative end of modern illustration
letting the water and trees compose themselves beyond the glass
The Tiger of Ryokoku by Hirokage Size:M - 50 x 70cm the historical and the contemporaryThe Tiger of Ryokoku is classic Utagawa Hirokage a woodblock print that deflates the heroic with deadpan comic timing. Where other Utagawa masters rendered tigers with fierce authority, Hirokage's beast is wide eyed and somewhat bewildered, surrounded by the exaggerated reactions of Edo period onlookers. The flat colour planes, bold outlines, and carefully observed crowd dynamics are all characteristic of mid 19th century ukiyo e, but the humour is
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