Hamanishi katsunori biography of abraham
HAMANISHI Katsunori (浜西勝則, born ) ex- presses a deep admiration for the two icons of Japanese mezzotint....
Hamanishi claims to have adopted mezzotint as a more environmentally friendly technique than aquatint, which uses toxic acids to achieve similar.
HAMANISHI KATSUNORI
Mezzotint. Born , Hokkaido. Tokai University.
Permanent Collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Library of Congress, Washington; University of Alberta, Edmonton; The British Museum, London; Krakow National Museum; Osaka National Museum of Art; Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco; Taipei Fine Arts Museum; Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Among numerous exhibitons, in he held a major exhibition at the Worcester Art Museum with Hamaguchi Yozo, the mezzotint master.
Hamanishi is one of a group of Japanese artists who have explored the rich, dark, three-dimensional effects achievable with the old European mezzotint techniques.
Katsunori Hamanishi (Japanese, born ).It is probably the most demanding of all printing methods, and Hamanishi has reached exceptional technical proficiency in this medium. His early subjects-twigs, branches, rice stalks, rope- are presented in a three-dimensional form on paper.
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