3 HAKU MAKI JAPANESE WOODBLOCKS FRAMED
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Three (3) Haku Maki (Japanese, 1924-2000) Modern Japanese Limited Edition Woodblock Prints. All are signed and numbered by the artist. All are edition 111/200. Professionally framed and matted. Each 8 1/2"x8 1/2". Maki Haku was a sosaku hanga artist in 20th Century Japan. The artist was born with the name Maejima Tadaaki in 1924 in the small town Asomachi in the Ibaraki Prefecture of Japan. He graduated at Ibaraki Teachers' College and became vice-principal of an elementary school there. In 1945 he was in a special squadron of kamikaze pilots and his life was to be ended. However, with the surrender of Japan on August 14, 1945 his life was spared, and he became a teacher at a high school. He studied printmaking at the Modern Print Research Society with Koshiro Onchi andi, in 1950 he changed his name to Haku Maki. His work has a few characteristic design elements for which he became famous - deep embossing and the use of distorted Chinese characters. Maki developed his own process of relief printmaking, applying mixed media printing techniques. The artist first carved a conventional woodblock. Then he put cement around the carved areas. When the cement had dried out, Haku Maki carved and chiseled the cement into the shape he wanted to have. Then a wet, double-layered paper was used for the printing. Thus prints made in this technique show strong embossing. Haku Maki's works look nearly three-dimensional. Each 8 1/2"x8 1/2"x.75". Wt. 3 pds. PROVENANCE: A Private Charleston SC Collection
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3 HAKU MAKI JAPANESE WOODBLOCKS FRAMED
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