CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
Modern Japanese Prints 1912–1989: Woodblocks and Stencils — British Museum Press
- Key
- smith1994modern
- Authors
- Smith, Lawrence
- Issued
- 1994
- Type
- book
- Publisher
- British Museum Press
- Publisher place
- London
Raw CSL JSON
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"language": "en",
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Claims
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Funasaka exhibited at the Bradford International Print Biennale five times (1970, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1979). He has exhibited with the College Women's Association of Japan print show in Tokyo since 1979, and in 1984 was selected for their touring exhibition.
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Funasaka's work has developed through many technical stages over his career but has always been notable for its cool elegance of form. He first discovered the perforation technique accidentally by leaving a cigarette to burn on a print. Almost all of his prints have no title but a serial number.
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Funasaka is a prolific printmaker who has experimented technically with a wide range of effects but whose works maintain a quiet and dignified abstraction even when using motifs such as holes—sometimes literal, from cigarette burns—and the shape of the lemon, which he used a great deal from 1957 until the mid-1970s.
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Funasaka's early works were made from linoleum blocks, but he progressed to woodblock, silkscreen, and often complicated mixed-media techniques. In the late 1970s he also produced works which were partly paper collage and partly painted.
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