Steady Gaze (Flower)
Saitō Kiyoshi
Description
Subject Matter:
Copied from (1958/2.2)
Saito Kiyoshi was a 20th-century Sosaku-hanga artist, a movement that emphasized self-expression and the individual creation of prints. He issued his first prints in the now-famous "Winter in Aizu" series. This series was based on his hometown in Fukushima prefecture.
This print gives us a possible impression of anatomy. The flowers are oriented in a way that looks like sinuses and the brown object could be a trachea or esophagus.
Physical Description:
This print shows a portrait of a man looking right. His eye is open and looking directly at the viewer and is inside of a teardrop shape. There are flowers that go from his nose up to the crown of his head. There is a brown tube at his neck. A signature is in the lower left.
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