Joichi Hoshi — Orange and White Tree | Sosaku-hanga Print

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Joichi Hoshi — Orange and White Tree | Sosaku-hanga PrintJoichi Hoshi (19131979) was a Japanese Ssaku hanga printmaker known for his strikingly simple, almost abstract studies of trees compositions reduced to pure shape, colour, and silhouette. Working in woodblock, he achieved a meditative stillness that bridges Japanese printmaking tradition and mid century abstract sensibility. His tree prints, with their seasonal palette and quiet authority, are among the most distinctive works of postwar Japanese

heraldic design

racehorses

generating an extraordinary body of calligraphic work in every script and style from the austere Seal Script of the Tang dynasty to the fluid running hand of the Edo period

100 works in little more than a decade

His idealized male figures carried a charged aesthetic that resonated powerfully with queer audiences — the Arrow Collar Man became an early touchstone of LGBTQ+ visual culture decades before such language existed

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was the originator of purely non-objective painting — the artist who first made a fully abstract work and theorised its spiritual and psychological basis in Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911)

Ohara Koson (1877–1945) was the supreme master of kachō-ga — the Japanese art of bird-and-flower prints — and one of the most beloved names in the Shin Hanga movement

his influence on 20th-century art

now in the Imperial Household collection) constitute the most detailed

His garden at Giverny

foam-streaked waves of the ukiyo-e tradition — with the atmospheric refinement and colour sensitivity of the Shin Hanga approach

dynamic pose

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