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accession number:	1957.426
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.426
updated:		2023-08-23 21:24:07.401000

Toits de Paris. Yozo Hamaguchi (Japanese, 1909–2000). Mezzotint; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George P. Bickford 1957.426

title:				Toits de Paris
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creditline:			Gift of George P. Bickford
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culture:	Japan, 20th century
technique:	mezzotint
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Mezzotint
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Yozo Hamaguchi (Japanese, 1909–2000)  - artist

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Transformations in Japanese Printmaking
	opening date:   1984-09-25T04:00:00
	<i>Transformations in Japanese Printmaking</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 25-December 30, 1984).

	title:		A Tradition Transformed: Japanese Prints, 1947-1987
	opening date:   1988-02-09T05:00:00
	<i>A Tradition Transformed: Japanese Prints, 1947-1987</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 24, 1988).

	title:		East Meets West:  Tradition and Innovation in Modern Japanese Prints
	opening date:   2000-03-19T00:00:00
	<i>East Meets West:  Tradition and Innovation in Modern Japanese Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 19-May 28, 2000).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; March 19 - May 28, 2000.  "East Meets West:  Tradition and Innovation in Modern Japanese Prints."

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Regarded as a master of mezzotint, Hamaguchi is credited with its revival as a 20th-century medium of original expression. His interest in mezzotint grew out of his study of painting and printmaking during his early years in Paris in the 1930s. Dating back to 17th-century Europe, mezzotint had been used primarily as as a means of reproducing paintings in black and white. Hamaguchi approached the medium with new insight, exploiting the possibilities of finely graduated tones and infusing his images with vibrant colors emerging from velvety black grounds. Though his technique is European, his aesthetic approach derives from the Japanese emphasis on the importance of placement, pattern, and selectivity, and the reverence for such subtleties, often discounted as merely "decorative" in Western art.
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