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"Nara" Japanese Townscape
"Nara" Japanese Townscape

"Nara" Japanese Townscape

By Kiyoshi Saitō

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"Maiko Kyoto" Japanese Figurative Woodblock Print
"Maiko Kyoto" Japanese Figurative Woodblock Print

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By Kiyoshi Saitō

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In 1937, he presented both types of work for the first time in the famous Kokugakai Exhibition. When he met Ono Tadashige at the Ginza Exhibition in 1939, he became a member of his a...

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"Shoji Kyoto" Japanese Interior Woodblock Print

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Located in Houston, TX

Saito mainly worked in oil painting until his invitation from Tadashige Ono to join the Zokei Hanga Kyokai in 1938, at which time Saito made the woodblock print his primary medium.

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"Kyoto And Window" Japanese Minimal Interior Woodblock Print

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By Kiyoshi Saitō

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Saito mainly worked in oil painting until his invitation from Tadashige Ono to join the Zokei Hanga Kyokai in 1938, at which time Saito made the woodblock print his primary medium.

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Kiyoshi Saito "Winter in Aizu with Skiers" Signed and Sealed Woodblock Print

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Tadashige Ono Painting

Tadashige Ono Painting

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Tadashige Ono Painting

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Tadashige Ono painting on paper.

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"Katsura Kyoto" Japanese Linear Architectural Wood Block Print

"Katsura Kyoto" Japanese Linear Architectural Wood Block Print

By Kiyoshi Saitō

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Japanese Minimal Interior Woodblock Print
Japanese Minimal Interior Woodblock Print

Japanese Minimal Interior Woodblock Print

By Kiyoshi Saitō

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Saito mainly worked in oil painting until his invitation from Tadashige Ono to join the Zokei Hanga Kyokai in 1938, at which time Saito made the woodblock print his primary medium.

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"Oribe Lantern and Screen" Japanese Minimal Wood Block Print
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"Oribe Lantern and Screen" Japanese Minimal Wood Block Print

By Kiyoshi Saitō

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Saito mainly worked in oil painting until his invitation from Tadashige Ono to join the Zokei Hanga Kyokai in 1938, at which time Saito made the woodblock print his primary medium.

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Located in Soquel, CA

In 1937 he presented both types of work for the first time in the famous Kokugakai Exhibition and was highly motivated. When he met Ono Tadashige at the Ginza Exhibition in 1939, he ...

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Kiyoshi Saitō for sale on 1stDibs

Kiyoshi Saito was born in Fukushima Prefecture in 1907. At the age of five, he moved to Otaru in Hokkaido, where he would come to serve as an apprentice to a sign painter. Saito became infatuated with art after studying drawing with Gyokusen Narita and moved to Tokyo in 1932 to study Western-style painting at the Hongo Painting Institute. He began experimenting with woodblock prints and exhibiting his works with Nihon Hanga Kyōkai in 1936. Saito mainly worked in oil painting until his invitation from Tadashige Ono to join the Zokei Hanga Kyokai in 1938, at which time Saito made the woodblock print his primary medium. He worked with the Asahi Newspaper Company in 1943, where he met Kōshirō Onchi. This chance encounter led to an invitation to Ichimoku Kai and membership to Nihon Hanga Kyōkai in 1944. 

Saito’s printmaking career was put on hold due to the war. During the occupation, he sold his first print in an exhibit with fellow artists Un’ichi Hiratsuka and Hide Kawanishi. In 1948, Saito exhibited at the Salon Printemps, an event sponsored by Americans for Japanese Artists. At the Sao Paulo Biennale of 1951, Saito won first place for his print Steady Gaze. In competition with Japanese oil painting and sculpture, this was a turning point for Japanese printmakers: For the first time in Japanese history, prints overtook painting. This achievement roused the Japanese art establishment. In 1956, Saito was sponsored by the state department and the Asia Foundation to travel and exhibit around the United States and Europe. As a sōsaku-hangaartist, Saito’s prints are self-drawn, self-carved and self-printed. His early works are distinguished by an attention to realism and three-dimensionality. As his style evolved, his prints became flattened and two-dimensional, featuring strong and refined designs with color and texture. Kiyoshi Saito passed away in 1997.

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Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.

Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.

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