A Tacit Agreement
Yamaguchi Gen
1953–1963
- Medium
- Color woodblock print
- Dimensions
- 64.8 × 48.3 cm (25 1/2 × 19 in.)
- Genre
- woodblock print
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printasian artJapanese (culture or style)woodblock print
About
The colors and therefore the relationship of the shapes to the background differ dramatically in this image. In this print, the pattern that was produced by rubbing the paper against the woodblock displays vertical strokes; in the other print, the effect is more akin to cross-hatching.
