Riddle Trees (Part 7) by HENRY HU Auguste Renoir graphic enough to read strongly

graphic enough to read strongly across a room

A loose cluster of moss roses fills a simple glass vase

Hasui Kawase brings Tenno Temple into the shin-hanga tradition with the composed stillness that defines his finest work

clean outlines

and this landscape shows the same patient

Riddle Trees (Part 7) by HENRY HU Auguste Renoir graphic enough to read stronglyRiddle Trees (Part 7) arrives at a moment of pronounced openness in the series, the branching structures reduced to their most essential lines and set against an expansive, near empty ground. By this point in the sequence Henry Hu has stripped back progressively, and here that process reaches a sustained quietude single strokes read with extraordinary weight precisely because so little else competes for attention. The composition tilts toward