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Saito Kiyoshi
(Japanese painter and woodcutter, 1907-1997)
Japan, (1907–1997)
Kiyoshi Saitô was born in Sakamoto, Fukushima prefecture. He studied Western-style painting at the Hongô Painting Institute and exhibited his oil paintings with various art groups and societies. After having a print accepted by the Kokugakai ("National Picture Association"), Saitô began to seriously pursue printmaking. In 1938 he issued his first prints in his now famous "Winter in Aizu" series. After steadily gaining recognition, he won first prize in 1951 at the Sao Paulo, Brazil international biennial exhibition for his print called "Steady Gaze," where it won over both prints and paintings. Saitô admired Piet Mondrian and some of his views of buildings and temples seem to display that influence in their simplified forms. Saitô's prints have been especially popular in the west, although his works are appreciated in Japan as well. Saitô worked primarily in the woodblock medium, while also producing works in collagraph, drypoint, and color and ink paintings ('suiboku ga'). He carved his images into blocks of various woods, either solid katsura or plywood faced with katsura, rawan, yanagi, keyaki, shina, or lauan, to obtain a wide range of textures. In some cases he used only one block for all the colors in a design, while for others he needed as many as 5 or 6 different blocks. He often used 'kizuki-hôsho' ("genuinely-made 'hôsho'," that is, the fine-quality paper made from kôzo, Paper mulberry).
BIBLIOGRAPHY --- Harada, Minoru: The Life and Works of Kiyoshi Saito. Tokyo: Abe Shuppan, 1990. --- Merritt, H. and Tamada, N.: Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992, p. 129. --- Petit, G. and Arboleda, A.: Evolving Techniques in Japanese Woodblock Prints. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1977, pp. 56 and 152. --- Smith, L.: Modern Japanese Prints, 1912-1989. London: British Museum Press, 1994, pp. 59-60, plates 93 and 95. --- Statler, O.: Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn. Rutland VT: Tuttle, `91956, pp. 53-58 and 191-192, plates 29-36. Kiyoshi Saito (b. 1907) belonged to the sosaku hanga ('creative print') movement and was mostly unknown in America until after World War II. Kiyoshi Saito is one of the best known modern Japanese artists in the Western world. He had started with a sign painting business before he went to Tokyo in the 1930s to study Western style painting. In the late 1930s and the 1940s Kiyoshi Saito began to work seriously in woodblock technique. His great time came after world war II, when he won prizes at the International print exhibitions in Sao Paulo and Ljubljana. From the 1950s on the artist exhibited and partly lived in the U.S.A. and in Europe. --artelino.com

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