Keika hyakugiku Pl.30 by Keika Hosegawa Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm shimmering field of colour

shimmering field of colour

this seascape is Seurat's Pointillism at its most atmospheric — the harbour rendered in thousands of discrete colour dots that dissolve at viewing distance into shimmering light and still water

and the concentric logic of the city's arrondissements becomes visible as pure pattern

deep ochres

Keika hyakugiku Pl.30 by Keika Hosegawa Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm shimmering field of colourPlate 30 of the Keika hyakugiku series presents what appears to be a pompon type cultivar a tightly rounded bloom whose uniformly curved petals create an almost spherical silhouette. The composition uses negative space with great confidence, the single stem rising from the lower edge to anchor a head that seems to float in the frame. Meiji era restraint governs every line: nothing is embellished, and that economy makes the study all the more