Kono Bairei — Hibiscus | Meiji Period Print

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Kono Bairei — Hibiscus | Meiji Period PrintKono Bairei (18441895) was a Kyoto based painter and printmaker of the Meiji era who was instrumental in the revival of traditional Japanese painting styles at a time of rapid Westernisation. He produced illustrated albums of birds and flowers of great botanical accuracy and painterly delicacy, and his work had significant influence on the next generation of Meiji artists, including Takeuchi Seih and the Shin Hanga movement's nature painters. Printed

and exceptional painterly freedom

and spiritual expression

His influence on modern abstraction

His drawings are held at the Albertina

The United States Information Agency (USIA) produced a remarkable series of exhibition posters in the postwar decades

His calligraphic works

Sakura imagery runs from the great woodblock prints of the Edo period through the Shin Hanga movement to contemporary Japanese graphic design — a continuous tradition in which the blossom's combination of colour

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

Strimaitis was a Soviet graphic designer whose bold constructivist posters were produced for Lithuanian Soviet state agencies during the mid-20th century

commissioning modernist designers to communicate American ideals abroad

and spiritual refinement

New England landscapes

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