Tree Red Peony by Kazumasa Exhibition Hokusai fine detail

fine detail

Bold captures the commanding presence of a contemporary woman rendered in Sofia Doudine's signature graphic style

The woman at the centre is not selling so much as embodying — an ideal of grace and pleasure made visible through line and pigment

lending the scene the meditative stillness that defines the finest ukiyo-e landscape tradition

painted with the same mosaic-like handling Klimt brought to his decorative works

Tree Red Peony by Kazumasa Exhibition Hokusai fine detailThe tree peony holds a different character from its herbaceous counterpart more architectural, the bloom sitting atop a woody stem with a stateliness that Kazumasa captures with evident appreciation. In deep, saturated crimson, the petals cup inward at the centre, surrounding a cluster of golden stamens that punctuate the richness of the red. His collotype technique renders the gradations from petal edge to heart with exceptional accuracy, preserving