Riddle Trees (Part 7) by HENRY HU Auguste Renoir and mapped detail come through

and mapped detail come through without loss

and this landscape shows the same patient

elongated figures

Hasui Kawase brings Tenno Temple into the shin-hanga tradition with the composed stillness that defines his finest work

Riddle Trees (Part 7) by HENRY HU Auguste Renoir and mapped detail come throughRiddle Trees (Part 7) arrives at a moment of pronounced openness in the series, the branching structures reduced to their most essential lines and set against an expansive, near empty ground. By this point in the sequence Henry Hu has stripped back progressively, and here that process reaches a sustained quietude single strokes read with extraordinary weight precisely because so little else competes for attention. The composition tilts toward