Ryôan-ji Stone Garden, Kyoto / Saitô Kiyoshi
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- Accession Number
- 1959/2.86
- Title
- Ryôan-ji Stone Garden, Kyoto
- Artist
- Saitô Kiyoshi
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- (active 1907 - 1997)
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper, 2-fold screen
- Object Creation Date
- 1957
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Japan (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Japan (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the artist
- Style/Group/Movement
- Sôsaku hanga
- Dimensions
- 152.4 cm x 152.4 cm (60 in. x 60 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- color print
- Physical Description
- In this two-fold screen, the artist reveals the geometric beauty of the famous fifteenth-century stone garden at the Ryôanji temple, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Kyoto.
- Subject Matter
- Saitô Kiyoshi was a self-proclaimed fan of the Dutch De Stijl painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), known for paintings of pure geometry in primary colors and black. Saitô found his vocabulary of abstract forms particularly well-suited to conveying the austere, simple lines of centuries-old Japanese temples and architecture. By recasting Japanese art and culture in a modern idiom, Saitô’s work played an important role in legitimizing it in the eyes of the international art world.
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- geographic and political locations
- inorganic material
- japan (nation)
- kinki (region)
- kyoto (urban prefecture)
- materials
- materials by composition
- open spaces
- open spaces and site elements
- open spaces by form
- rock
- rock by form
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1003 x 994
- File Size
- 49 KB
- Record
- 1959/2.86
- Link to this Item
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"Ryôan-ji Stone Garden, Kyoto; Saitô Kiyoshi." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1959-sl-2.86/1959_2.86.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.