Striped Camellias by Kazumasa Exhibition Kaitlyn Parker rhythmic color relationships

rhythmic color relationships

There is a hush to it that lingers

Yellow dominates this composition with the force of a sustained musical note – radiating outward through the picture plane

balancing botanical detail with bold colour and decorative rhythm

rendered with the clean conviction of its time

Striped Camellias by Kazumasa Exhibition Kaitlyn Parker rhythmic color relationshipsCamellia japonica, with its precise, formal petals, was a favourite subject in both Japanese painting and early botanical photography and Kazumasa's striped variety is a particularly striking example. The flowers are caught in their prime: petals patterned in clean stripes of crimson and white, the geometry almost architectural in its regularity. His collotype process reproduces the pigmentation with a fidelity that no hand coloured engraving could