autumn at oirase oirase no aki fine art print hasui kawase graphiteonpaper Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

Original by Smithsonian American Art Museum

he received the first prize at the water color exhibition of the American Art Association

he spent years studying the smallest creatures of the sea and believed their overlooked beauty deserved a place on the wall beside any masterpiece — a conviction that helped inspire the organic motifs of Art Nouveau

Hasui Kawase was an artist

autumn at oirase oirase no aki fine art print hasui kawase graphiteonpaper Dominican RepublicTitle: Autumn at Oirase (Oirase no aki) Creator: Kawase Hasui Date: 1933 Place of origin: Japan Hasui Kawase was an artist, one of modern Japan's most important and prolific printmakers. He was a prominent designer of the shin hanga ("new prints") movement, whose artists depicted traditional subjects with a style influenced by Western art. Like many earlier ukiyo e prints, Hasui's works were commonly landscapes, but displayed atmospheric effects and