James Jean Chrysanthemum Woodcut Art Print Rare Sold Out with COA Adachi

  

Up for grabs is James Jean's beautiful work, Chrysanthemum. This work was produced by the Adachi Institute of Woodcut Printing. Certificate of authenticity will be included with the piece. Both the COA and print itself are signed by the artist.

A signature confirmation will be required, due to the value. You will receive the print in the exact condition as displayed (without the censoring of the edition number).

As per Adachi's site. Dimension of image: 27.0 × 36.0 cm.

Type of print: Woodcut print. Paper used: Echizen kizuki hosho washi. (produced by living national treasure Ichibei Iwano). Date of publication: June 2021. Supervision: The Adachi Foundation for the Preservation of Woodcut Printing.

Production: The Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints.'Chrysanthemum' began as a drawing on the iPad. As a purely digital work, the lines mimic the textures and energetic lines of a sketch, but it only exists as a file on the tablet, a ghost in the machine. However, the spirit of the image has been meticulously carved into blocks of wood and imbued into the fibers of handcrafted paper. Continuing in the series of muses that are consecrated in the woodcut medium, the Chrysanthemum muse is caught in a tornado of fire-the external trappings burn away, revealing the essence within.

The petals pulsate like beating hearts, marking a tempo for this fiery process of destruction and rebirth. The light and brilliant colors of traditional woodcut prints is produced by using a Baren rubbing pad to rub water-based paints into the fibers of the paper, which is carefully handcrafted from paper mulberry. The printer feels the world view of Jean and his artwork "Chrysanthemum" as he mixes and prints the colors on top of one another.