Mount Fuji by Kazumasa Exhibition Henri Edmond Cross fine decorative motifs

fine decorative motifs

Set against a restrained background

but immediately recognisable and full of charm

the illustration's clean contours and rich colour fields are reproduced with sharp precision

The matte surface preserves the quiet intensity of the original

Mount Fuji by Kazumasa Exhibition Henri Edmond Cross fine decorative motifsOgawa Kazumasa turned his collotype lens toward Japan's most iconic landscape and found something quieter than spectacle. Mount Fuji rises through mist, its snow capped peak softened at the edges by atmospheric haze, the lower slopes dissolving into a still foreground of water or plain. The palette is restrained cool greys, faint blues, the white of the summit and entirely consistent with the understated aesthetic that runs through all of Kazumasa's