Ito Shinsui
Japanese, 1898-1972
Before the Storm
INV-4797
Ito Shinsui
Japanese, 1898-1972March 1920
Before the Storm
Ito Shinsui Japanese, 1898-1972 →Japanese (culture or style)woodblock printprint
Date
March 1920
Medium
Color woodblock print
Dimensions
32.9 × 23.8 cm (13 × 9 3/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Oliver Statler
Here Itô Shinsui pays homage to Vincent van Gogh’s painting Wheat Field with a Lark (1887). He zoomed in on one section of the field and emphasized the approaching storm—barely visible in the painted image—by covering the sky with a mixture of grays printed in layers, a technical feat in its own right.
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