id: 157527 accession number: 1994.63 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.63 updated: 2023-08-23 23:22:41.013000 Tree of Life. Serizawa Keisuke (Japanese, 1895–1984). Hand-dyed stencil print; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. Daniel and Mitzie Verne in honor of the seventy-fifth anniversary of The Print Club of Cleveland 1994.63 title: Tree of Life title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: creation date earliest: creation date latest: current location: creditline: Gift of Dr. Daniel and Mitzie Verne in honor of the seventy-fifth anniversary of The Print Club of Cleveland copyright: --- culture: Japan, 20th century technique: hand-dyed stencil print department: Prints collection: PR - Stencil (pouchoir) type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Serizawa Keisuke (Japanese, 1895–1984) - artist --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: East Meets West: Tradition and Innovation in Modern Japanese Prints opening date: 2000-03-19T00:00:00 East Meets West: Tradition and Innovation in Modern Japanese Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 19-May 28, 2000). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; March 19 - May 28, 2000. "East Meets West: Tradition and Innovation in Modern Japanese Prints." --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Serizawa used the traditional Japanese hand-dyed stencil method, commonly used in textile production, to create this print. In this technique, a stencil is placed on top of a sheet of paper and paste is brushed over the entire surface, passing through the cutout areas of the stencil onto the paper. When the paste has dried and the stencil is removed, the artist applies dye color to the entire sheet. After the dye has dried, the paste is washed away. The paper remains uncolored where the paste has been removed (the dried paste acts as a resist, preventing dye from seeping into the paper), but the dye has transferred to the paper in the areas that were covered by the stencil when the paste was originally applied. Multiple stencils are often used to produce one image, as a means of applying more than one color and/or form. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES